The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of school-level factors (physical resources, teachers' and schools' characteristics) and system-level factors (delegation of financial authority to public primary schools through Parent Teacher Councils (PTCs)) on two education…
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In 2007, the Illinois General Assembly passed The Illinois College and Career Readiness (CCR) Pilot Program (Public Act 095-0694) in an attempt to reduce statewide remediation at the community college level and address the misalignment between high school graduation expectations…
This dissertation examines the value of evaluation for Turkey's educational decision making. Relying on individual interviews and document review, the study analyzes how key stakeholders - government officials, academics, and civil society representatives - and governmental acts…
This study explores how Muslim parents in the Greater Toronto Area are engaged in their children's education and the challenges they face in trying to engage with the public school system. The public schools in Ontario are secular by law and free from any religious affiliation. …
The purpose of this research study was to identify gaps in understanding of the specialized educational needs of active-duty military service members enrolled in higher education and to develop new insights that may be helpful to colleges and universities in designing initiative…
In recent years, there has been a strong push for worldwide improvements in primary education. Many of the corresponding goals and policies find their foundation in a vast literature that demonstrates the wide-ranging benefits of educating females, including widely-accepted evid…
The purpose of this study is to identify the intended and unintended outcomes of offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) at the Cairo American College (CAC) in Egypt, both for the students and the school. This mixed methods study involves a qualitative ca…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA, has invested ample resources to boost and enhance the environment and the outcome of its educational system. Using AlGodorat and AlTahsili, standardized tests used to evaluate students' knowledge and skills, as a measurement to find discrepancie…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between factors (internal [personal] and external [environmental]) and teachers’ participation in professional development (PD) programs in Turkey. The researcher employed a survey design, using a multiple-stage sampling …
Language policies in education are contested domains. Language selection for instruction in schools across the world is even more complicated, particularly with the introduction of globalization, the concept of the nation-state, and the diverse choices of languages. The 2009 Pak…
This dissertation is the product of the investigation of an educational institution in Cyprus, where supposed enemies share a classroom and a unifying school identity. In 2003, following the opening of a few checkpoints along the dividing line of the island that keeps apart Gree…
Effective strategies and techniques for reform improvement require an understanding of the forces of the change process that facilitate its implementation. The involvement of classroom teachers in the process of formulating changes surface factors that influence reform's effecti…
Numerous studies find evidence that single-sex schooling during early adolescence creates achievement advantages, and that these advantages are greater for girls. However, there is a dearth of evidence on whether single-sex schooling has similar effects in the Middle East, where…
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine policies and solutions addressing (a) improving education for citizens of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and (b) providing alternative instructional delivery methods, including e-learning for those living in remote areas. Theoretica…
Since the mid-1990s, public education provision in Turkey has been in constant transformation, a result of modernization efforts connected to the political determination of governments to complete Turkey's accession to the European Union. During this period two nation-wide refor…
Two significant effects of globalization around the world are the decentralization and liberalization of systems, including education services. In 2000, the Pakistani Government brought major higher education liberalization and expansion reforms by encouraging market approaches …
The notion that principals' actions create distinct working environments in schools and that these environments are associated with teacher satisfaction is well established in the United States (Johnson, Kraft & Papay, 2011; Moore, 2012; Grissom, 2011). As part of the process of…
Purpose. The purpose of the study was to determine the strategic planning processes in Saudi Arabian public universities and the level of compliance with best practices in strategic planning in Saudi public universities. Theoretical Foundations. The theoretical foundations of th…
This study examined local stakeholders' involvement in the School-Based Curriculum Development (SBCD) policy implementation in five elementary schools in a city in the southeastern region of Indonesia. An interpretive qualitative case study design was applied. Participants in th…