What are public schools missing that a private Christian institution can fill starting with kindergarten? Considering today's public education, there are many gaps in what children today are learning and the foundations that are being molded from the beginning through life. With…
When interest groups decide to litigate, they intentionally work through a process that has as much to do with the rule of law as with ideological preferences, in which the outcomes are much less certain. Some scholars oppose what has come to be known as ``public law cases'' bec…
This qualitative phenomenological study fills a void in the existing research on school choice by including the University-Model® school to the literature. Through purposeful sampling, seven parents of students enrolled in grades 3rd-6th at a University-Model® school in the Nort…
This qualitative study explored stakeholders’ perceptions of one mid-Atlantic private, interdenominational school’s organizational identity, how stakeholders were involved, their motivations for involvement, and their impressions of leaderships’ engagement with and treatment of …
This study provides a detailed account of the history of African American education in North Carolina from 1954 to 1971. This research expands our knowledge of African American education in Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as providing personal testimonials from students direc…
Increasing opportunities for higher education in the Middle East has meant that many women who would not traditionally have attended post-secondary education are now encouraged to access higher education. This change has come with many potential problems as the traditional role …
English is the most widely spoken language in the world, and many higher education institutes (HEIs) in the global South have prioritised English language education (ELE). In Colombia, the context of this study, English has become the de facto foreign language in Colombian highe…
This study investigated the attitudes of principals and teachers toward implementing cooperative learning methods at girls' private middle schools in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Additionally, factors affecting the implementation of cooperative learning at the schools were assessed. Th…
This qualitative study explores the status of using CALL multimedia by eight EFL instructors at four Saudi private schools. It investigates these instructors' pedagogies and beliefs about CALL. Interviewing, observation, document analysis, field notes, and videotaping were the m…
Education privatization has been perceived in developing countries as a strategy to deal with issues of access, quality, choice, and efficiency. To the Malaysian government, education privatization is a partnership to share the costs burden of educating all sectors of society. W…
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of supervisors as educational leaders in nine private schools in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. It examines the administrative and leadership duties as viewed by teachers, supervisors and inspectresses. The study categorie…
This study was designed to examine four Catholic school classrooms to further understand private education in Indonesia. Private education in Indonesia accounts for over 30% of the education system (Ministry of Education and Culture, 1999). In addition, the government of Indones…
Parent involvement has been shown to be very important to students' academic success, yet in most schools in Saudi Arabia it has been limited to reviewing the students' lessons at home and attending parent teacher conferences. Parents cannot influence the curriculum or the polic…
Rather than "saving" the difficult fields of religion and philosophy for college curricula, it is instead developmentally appropriate for high school students—fourteen- to eighteen-year-olds—to engage the complex existential, ethical, and analytical challenges raised by these di…
American teachers are actively recruited to teach in private Kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) schools around the world. Since the 1990's, the number of American or otherwise English-language based schools has increased in foreign countries, which makes American teachers th…