In the United States, sex education curricula sponsored by public school districts varies from state-to-state. Nationally, this arrangement provides students with varied levels of exposure to critical sex education information. Sex education is mandatory in Mississippi, but is n…
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Students in the United States have the right to attend school, learn, and participate in school activities without discrimination. Research has shown that LGBTQ students are more likely to experience bullying and discrimination. New York State’s Dignity for All Students Act prov…
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally funded program that provides support and guidelines for meal programs in public and nonprofit schools as well as childcare institutions. The program is currently the nation’s second largest and oldest food assistance progra…
Ontario is the only province in Canada that continues to exclusively provide government funding to Catholic schools while not providing any funding to schools of other faiths. The research question asks; how do stakeholders, advocates for funding, and proponents of one public sc…
This dissertation investigates the impact of the CET-4/6 (College English Test Band Four/Six) on College English education at one university in China. It aims to explore the social contexts where CET-4/6 was initiated, used as a de facto language policy, and later dropped at thi…
This study examined the purpose of classical schools in America. The mission statements of 400 classical schools were coded and categorized according to 11 major themes. The data collected were used to examine possible trends among classical schools as a subset of American educa…
A primary mission of the modern American high school is to assure that each student is college and career ready. One common measure for college readiness is the ACT. The urgency around college readiness preparation has intensified as states adopt such tests for reporting and acc…
Disparity in the identification of educational disabilities among minority populations has been of great concern throughout the history of special education in the United States. The literature has suggested that there is disparity between how parents of special education studen…
Research has revealed that exclusionary discipline elevates the risk of arrest, incarceration, and associated deleterious outcomes. Few if any studies, however, have examined the link between exclusionary discipline during childhood and the development of legal cynicism. This pr…
The United States has a storied history in terms of race, equality, and acceptance of minority populations. Racial constructs have caused division in America since its inception and there has been a long journey in terms of equal opportunity in education for minority populations…
In 2013, California initiated the most significant education policy reform in recent history with the enactment of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). The policy contained three major guiding principles: to simplify California’s education finance structure, to enhance publ…
School discipline has garnered national, state and local attention in regard to the excessive use of exclusionary practices and its lifelong impact on youth. The increase in exclusionary practices has been attempted to be addressed through discipline policy reform, the push for …
Throughout the history of the United States, tests have been utilized as a means to exclude and marginalize immigrant and minority populations, and in the absence of a national language policy have served as de facto language policy. English Learners (ELs) have been among the fa…
The Janus v. AFCSME (2018) decision has fundamentally changed the institutional context for U.S. teachers’ unions. Although this change has the potential to upend education politics and the labor movement more broadly, little research exists to help us predict and conceptualize …
"Critique of global hierarchies along with aspirations to decolonize knowledge have increased significantly in Western academia over recent decades. And yet this critique has hardly upset the global hierarchies that it has decried. In this book, Márton Demeter opens the closet t…
In the United States, government participation in education has traditionally involved guaranteeing public access, public funding, and public governance to achieve accountability, representativeness and equality. This volume discusses the role of broad regimes of local community…
This edited book examines English-Medium Instruction (EMI) language policy and practice in higher education around the world, highlighting how English language usage affects the internationalization of universities, the way that disciplines are taught and learned, and questionin…
This book provides a highly accessible overview of public education policy. It organizes knowledge about 21st century education policy around two main topics: the policy process, and the discourse on public education policy. This unique organization provides a novel lens for bet…
This book provides a highly accessible overview of public education policy. It organizes knowledge about 21st century education policy around two main topics: the policy process, and the discourse on public education policy. This unique organization provides a novel lens for bet…