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IEQ undertaken by: American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Academy for Educati... more IEQ undertaken by: American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Academy for Educational Development

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Education After 9/11, 2002

ABSTRACT This article, stimulated by discussions at the 2001 American Educational Studies Associa... more ABSTRACT This article, stimulated by discussions at the 2001 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) conference, offers multiple perspectives on 2 separable topics, terrorism and Islam. It then suggests some challenges to teaching about these topics in Egypt, the Philippines, Cuba, and the United States. Included in the challenges are the heterogeneity of people in each country and the complex historical and contemporary political/military dynamics within and between these countries. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Explores the contradictions in the conceptions of curriculum which preservice teachers encounter,... more Explores the contradictions in the conceptions of curriculum which preservice teachers encounter, their attempts to resolve these dilemmas, and the efforts to resist the separation of conceptualizing and executing the curriculum

Reviews the literature on these relationships and introduces articles in this Special Issue

Revista Española de Educación Comparada, 2005

una larga historia, que se remonta al surgimiento de la investigación empírica sobre políticas pú... more una larga historia, que se remonta al surgimiento de la investigación empírica sobre políticas públicas en la Europa y los Estados Unidos del siglo XIX (DUNN, 1986a). En el campo de la educación, así como en otras áreas, se ha expresado la preocupación por el limitado alcance y efectividad de la comunicación entre investigadores y teorizadores de un lado, y profesionales y decisores de políticas del otro. Muchos educadores, cualquiera sea la naturaleza primaria de su actividad, concuerdan en que decisores y profesionales 2 deberían utilizar en forma mucho más asidua la investigación educativa (HALLINAN, 1996; BIDDLE y ANDERSON, 1991; PSACHAROPOULOS, 1990; etc.), basándose en la creencia de que dentro de los sistemas educativos muchas decisiones vitales son tomadas sin suficiente información y conocimiento (REIMERS y MCGINN, Las relaciones entre teóricos / investigadores…

Article 26 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights specifies that "everyone has the rig... more Article 26 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights specifies that "everyone has the right to education" (United Nations, 1948).[1] A commitment to the universal right to education mobilized various actors in 1990 to issue the World Declaration on Education for All (EFA), which states that "every person. .. shall be able to benefit from educational opportunities designed to meet their basic learning needs. .. required by human beings to. .. to live and work in dignity. .. [and] to improve the quality of their lives" (Inter-Agency Commission, 1990, Article I). The universal right to education also motivated a similar set of actors in 2000 to develop the Dakar Framework for Action, Education for All: Meeting our Collective Commitments, which restates a global commitment "to the achievement of education for all (EFA) goals and targets for every citizen and for every society" (UNESCO, 2000, p. 8). However, recent reports monitoring progress toward achieving education for all by 2015 offer sober assessments. UNESCO (2012, p. 4) indicates that "on current trends, the goal of universal primary education (UPE) will be missed by a large margin.. .. Between 2008 and 2010, progress stalled altogether." UIS (2013, pp. 1, 3) reports that "new data show that the world is unlikely. .. to get every child in school by 2015.. .. [Moreover], there has been little progress in reducing the rate at which children leave school before reaching the last grade of primary education." Additionally, although the Dakar Framework for Action affirms that "no countries seriously committed to education for all will be thwarted in their achievement of this goal by lack of resources" (UNESCO, 2000, p. 9), there is dispiriting evidence that the international community has not lived up to this responsibility. This is despite the fact that many low-and middle-income countries have increasingly demonstrated their commitment to education for all. According to the EFA Global Monitoring Report (UNESCO, 2012): Among low and middle income countries with comparable data, 63% have increased the share of national income spent on education in the past decade. Coupled with economic growth and greater government capacity to raise revenue, this led to significant increases in total educational expenditure. (p. 42) Just as a final push is needed to reach the Education for All goals by 2015. .. there are worrying signs that donor contributions may be slowing down. More money alone will not ensure that the EFA goals are reached, but less money will certainly be harmful.[2] (p. 142) Global discussions about EFA goals for 2015 and, more so, global deliberations regarding post-2015 education goals have moved beyond access to concerns about improving the quality of education for those who gain access (see UNESCO, 2004). Both the 1990 and 2000 EFA

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presented in the three previous chapters of this monograph. The summaries highlight aspects of th... more presented in the three previous chapters of this monograph. The summaries highlight aspects of the stories in relation to the heuristic device discussed in the introductory chapter, the policy--practice--research--dialogue/dissemination (PPRD/D) spirals model. This concluding chapter

African Educational Research Journal, 2014

This study investigates inter-school variations in several dimensions of opportunity to learn as ... more This study investigates inter-school variations in several dimensions of opportunity to learn as well as examines the extent to which these measures significantly affect students’ performance on grade 7 literacy and numeracy exams. After situating the study within the global discourse emphasizing the importance of providing access to quality education to all children and youth, the article reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on opportunity to learn. Data for this study come from the Annual School Census, national examination results, and a field study conducted in 2011 in 190 schools in all 9 provinces in Zambia. The findings indicate variation across schools in measures of opportunity to learn: a) days schools was open during year, b) hours schools was open during the day, c) teacher absenteeism, d) teacher late arrival/early departure, e) student absenteeism, and f) student late arrival/early departure. The regression analysis findings indicate that, of these dimensio...

Educational reform is shaped by the ideas and actions of national actors but also by global (ideo... more Educational reform is shaped by the ideas and actions of national actors but also by global (ideological, political, and economic) dynamics. This paper offers an analysis of the global discourses (words and practices) that helped to place notions of student-centred and active-learning pedagogies on the international education reform agenda, particularly since 1990. Additionally, the paper examines how these discourses interacted with educational reform initiatives in Egypt that were undertaken by Egyptian officials and educators, at times with project support from international intergovernmental and nongovernmental organisations. The paper concludes that comparative and international educators need to interrogate the variety of educational discourses operating at both the local/national and global levels, to examine the complex interactions that occur within and across these levels, and to analyse how such discourses are constrained or enabled by global political and economic develo...

African Educational Research Journal, 2017

This article examines an initiative by the USAID-funded Room to Learn South Sudan project (2013 t... more This article examines an initiative by the USAID-funded Room to Learn South Sudan project (2013 to 2016) to encourage and enable community participation in improving education access, quality and safety. Project staff engaged parents and teachers as well as women, youth, and other community members in developing and implementing school improvement plans. These plans were informed by their participation in a “good school” visioning exercise; their interpretation of data on measures of access, quality, and safety; and their appraising community assets that could contribute to implementing the school improvement plan. The project provided in-kind grants (mainly books and other instructional materials) and organized one capacity building workshop for PTA members and one for teachers, but was not able to provide other kinds of support (e.g., funds for construction, on-going technical assistance). Nevertheless, many of the school communities reported that they had made progress in impleme...

Encyclopedia of Teacher Education, 2019

Politics of Education in Latin America, 2019

Reforming Teaching and Learning, 2009

African Educational Research Journal, 2018

This paper analyzes data collected in the 2013 Liberian Annual School Census undertaken as part o... more This paper analyzes data collected in the 2013 Liberian Annual School Census undertaken as part of the Educational Management Information System and supplemented by information gathered from teacher education program organizers as well as from samples of graduates from preservice and inservice C-Certificate granting programs undertaken in Liberia in during 2007 to 2013. The authors report that the percentage of "qualified" primary school teachers (that is, those with at least a C-Certificate, which Liberian policy sets as the minimum qualification) expanded dramatically after the education system was decimated during the years of civil war (1989 to 2003). We also indicate that in government primary schools in 2013, the pupil-teacher ratio (24.8) and even the pupil-qualified teacher ratio (36.2) was lower-that is, betterthan the policy goal of 44 pupils per teacher. However, teacher hiring and deployment decisions led to large inequalities in these input measures of educational quality. At the same time, the authors discovered that the findings from the analysis of Liberia's 2013 EMIS data did not fully answer the question of where the (qualified) teachers are, in that we were not able to locate in the EMIS database substantial numbers of graduates of the various C-Certificate teacher education programs. However, contrary to the EMIS database findings, when telephone interviews were conducted with samples of these graduates, it was learned that many, but not the majority, of them had been employed in the education sector in 2013. The sources of this inaccuracy include: a) the principals of some schools had not been invited to the workshop where they were oriented to filling out the Annual School Census questionnaire; b) some principals, who attended, did not return the questionnaire; and c) some female and male teachers had used different names when enrolled in the C-Certificate program than they were using as teachers in 2013. The authors conclude by discussing the implications of the limitations of the EMIS data for reporting key indicators in Liberia and in other countries in relation to monitoring the global Sustainable Development Goal #4.

Comparative Education Review, 2018