The 1944 Education Act left open how the secondary schools system was to be organised. This study traces the functioning of the system in the second largest local education authority in the country over a period of twenty years. The effects on administration resulting from chang…
According to recent reports, Pakistan has approximately 23 million out of school children (UNICEF, 2019), the second highest number in the world. In order to get more children into schools, Pakistan has partnered with international development agencies and local non-governmental…
I study the effectiveness of education policies and programs to improve academic achievement and attainment among underserved students in the K-12 education pipeline in three different country contexts. My first paper investigates the role of information in strengthening local g…
This thesis is a two-fold study focusing on the media reception and projection of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in five Southeast Asian countries. In this context, media reception studies look at how the media in each country makes meaning out of its …
National governments confront different challenges to the goal of creating model citizens, as well as different ambitions in the type of citizen that they wish to create. The United States government faces a tension in determining the role of education in shaping the social orde…
Beyond its pedagogical technicality, language policy is both ideological and political. The English as Medium of Instruction or EMI policy in Indonesia’s international-standard public schools (IS-Schools) was an exemplary picture of how ideologically and politically contentious …
This dissertation uses narrative inquiry to explore the stories of 11 rural Ethiopian women who were extremely successful in their educational careers. One hour semi-structured interviews were conducted in Ethiopia with 35 women who had completed master’s degrees. From these, el…
Inequality in college access and match is a persistent global problem. Only recently, misinformation and sub-optimal decisions have been recognized as major behavioral barriers for low-income students during the complicated high school to college transition. However, little is k…
‘Going global’ is a prominent phrase used to describe transnational developments in British higher education, premised on the internationalization and export of UK universities. This dissertation interrogates one influential component of that agenda, the international branch cam…
Saudi Arabia has prioritized providing its students and educators with new technology and effective learning methods. Technology use in and out of the classroom has increased over the past 20 years. In both K-12 and collegiate education, classrooms around the world have begun to…
Pakistan, the sixth most populous nation in the world, faces complex and multifaceted challenges as it seeks to achieve middle-income country status in the 21st century. To achieve this objective, Pakistan must address the quality, access and governance issues facing its higher …
This dissertation tackles two research questions through two research methods - how public, private, and private and public-private partnership schools relate to student achievement (quantitative); and how Islam relates to parental educational decision making for school choice (…
This study examines the continuing efforts to integrate secular and religious sciences in Islamic secondary religious schools in Malaysia. It explored the differences that exist among the three stakeholders: the Ministry of Education, the scholars of education, and the teachers …
This qualitative study examines ways in which the Indian State and Islamic madrassas interact with each other, and attempts to shed light on the various social, political and economic factors that determine the nature of this interaction. The study is located within the existing…
This dissertation case study explicates the construct of “policy implementation process tools” as integral to the work of implementing the Promise Neighborhood Initiative. Policy implementation process tools reify and fortify the relationships necessary for local implementation …
Educational expansion is emphasized as a driving force behind the political, social, and economic advancement of any developing nation through agricultural, industrial, and commercial modernization. Given the significant role played by textbooks in many developing nations, this …
Beginning in 2011, the Syrian Conflict caused the widespread displacement of over five million people and caused a steep rise in the number of asylum seekers entering the European Union. Chancellor Angela Merkel adopted a controversial open-door policy in the summer 2015 that li…
This research will discuss the implications of war on the education of future Israeli generations. The framework, content and values of educating high school students prior to their army conscription will be thoroughly analyzed. I argue that the current education in Israel indoc…