This dissertation is a hermeneutic phenomenological study of synagogue-school teachers of Jewish sacred text. The phenomenological question that orients this study asks, What is the lived experience of teaching sacred text in a Conservative synagogue-school? This study takes pla…
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The purpose of this study was to understand why qualified American and Canadian educators left their home country to teach overseas and more specifically, why they decided to live and work in Kuwait. Fifty-one participants took part in the study. Each was asked to complete a 30 …
Simon (1976) insists "a general theory of administration must include principles of organization that will ensure correct decision-making, just as it must include principles that will ensure effective action" (p. 1). Similarly, Griffiths (1959) writes "the specific function of a…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of Illinois superintendents regarding their district's involvement in school partnerships with businesses and organizations in the community and to determine if their perceptions were at all influenced by the types of …
This causal comparative study was designed to compare the mathematical performance of Grade 3 students in Provincial public and Islamic private schools in Ontario. Three hundred and fifty-eight third grade students' EQAO (Education Quality and Accountability Office) mathematics …
Maximizing national productivity through nurturing individual growth is a primary concern of developing nations like Malaysia. One corollary of this concern is the need to detect failing and 'at risk' pupils so that correct and timely intervention can be given to them. The prima…
This research study examines the commonalities among school principals and their role as instructional leaders, their training as school administrators, and their work experience in schools with high concentration of language minority students of Hispanic descent. Ethnography an…
The purpose of this study was to focus an empirical investigation of the effects of the accelerated schools model on at-risk students in schools that have adopted the model, compared to schools not using the model. The study examined whether at-risk students in accelerated schoo…
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of 2 recent legal events, specifically the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act (2006) and Siadat v. Ontario College of Teachers (2007) decision, with regards to the opportunity of foreign trained teachers to practice their…
This study sought to investigate how the Sheikh Zayed Private Academy (SZPA) can further develop the school service program to better serve students and community. Community service, service learning, service's roots in experiential and civic education, and the outcomes of these…
The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain an understanding of how instructional coaches as teacher leaders impact teacher practice and effectiveness in the classroom. This research provided data for educators seeking to discover specificity in teacher leadership, embedde…
Studies show that in the social structure of Nigeria, women are discriminated against and occupy a lower social stratum than me. Disability confers lower social status to both men and women in Nigeria. This study was undertaken to evaluate whether there is still discrimination a…
This thesis seeks to increase understanding as to how primary school principals in Israel perceive the impact of school-based management on their leadership practices. The argument underpinning the thesis is that school principals represent the interface between policy makers an…
Even before the passage of Public Law 94-142, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act in 1975, the demand for special education teachers in America’s public schools has been greater than the supply (Thornton, Peltier, & Medina, 2007). Today, researchers, policy makers, and…
This study examines community participation in education in the rural Ethiopia villages of Khisha, Triab, and Shinkah by an NGO, Improvement for Ethiopian Education and Development (IEED). This study used a case study methodology to address a problem that current literature does…
In accountability frameworks for public education, the focus on the performance of individual schools is increasing. The introduction of parental choice is designed to help low performing schools improve or close. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to the underl…
This study explores national security intelligence education within U.S. civilian universities. Intelligence education is of interest to higher education institutions, as signaled by the rapid increase of "intelligence studies" programs across the U.S. since September 11, 2001. …
The worsening educational standard of Nigeria schools can be traced to the general social, political, and economic depression of the last 3 decades. The series of reforms that have been adopted by the government have yielded far fewer results than expected and the way forward se…
Teaching is professional work that as an occupation is characterized by many of the same rules of employment as other white-collar jobs. It is typically steady work with predictably rising pay, requires limited physical effort, a fixed amount of work time, and occurs in organiza…