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Maintaining the Charism: Leadership Matters in Catholic Independent Schools
This chapter offers an evidenced based insight into central challenges facing leaders who are responsible for Catholic independent schoolsCatholic...
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Independent Schools in South Africa: Acculturation of Zimbabwean Immigrant Teachers
South Africa, which offers relative political stability and prosperity, has always been a major destination country for a large flow of people...
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Schools as Borderlands: How Anzaldúa’s concept of Borderlands apply to schools that serve Black communities
Many young people in Newark, New Jersey, when they cross the invisible line that separates street from school, enter what constitutes for them an...
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The medical humanities at United States medical schools: a mixed method analysis of publicly assessable information on 31 schools
IntroductionThere have been increasing efforts to integrate the arts and humanities into medical education, particularly during undergraduate medical...
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Schools’ Neighborhoods and Characteristics: Implications for Standardized Academic Achievement in Passaic, NJ’s Elementary, Middle and High Schools
Schools in urban neighborhoods receive less funding, have less programming, and have poorer infrastructure. Such disparities may impede academic...
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The Peculiar Case of Presbyterian Church Schools
This paper considers the distinctive and peculiar place that Presbyterianism and Presbyterian Church schools occupy in New Zealand’s education...
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Closing special schools: lessons from Canada
Many countries grapple with the tension between commitment to inclusive education reform and the closure of special schools. This tension is...
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Sense-making of autonomy and control: Comparing school leaders in public and independent schools in a Swedish case
This article analyses how school leaders depict their autonomy and how they make sense of the relationship between autonomy and control. Attention is...
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Strategically Diverse: An Intersectional Analysis of Enrollments at U.S. Law Schools
Legal education scholars have argued that law schools strategically use Students of Color for enrollment management purposes; they can admit more to...
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Does the material well-being at schools successfully compensate for socioeconomic disadvantages? Analysis of resilient schools in Sweden
BackgroundA variety of studies point to a deterioration of educational equity in Sweden and increasing school segregation with respect to achievement...
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Open Innovation in Schools: A New Imperative for Organising Innovation in Education?
Schools are considered knowledge-creating organisations that find it difficult to develop and implement innovations on their own. Knowledge...
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A call to enhance transparency among Egyptian medical schools
BackgroundMaking accreditation results easily accessible has become a worldwide essential issue, especially after international standards were...
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Assessing students’ perceptions of school climate in primary schools
Research at the secondary school level provides compelling evidence to suggest that a positive school climate is related to improved health,...
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Pushing-in single-sex schools for enrichment of both enrolment and gender equity in STEM careers
BackgroundQuality education has been emphasized by the world Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) of the 17 goals the world set to achieve by 2030....
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Situating semester schools in the landscape of high school learning
Semester schools provide high-school students with a relatively new type of learning environment that largely has not been empirically studied. This...
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Supporting the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversity in schools: Auditing Australian education departmental policies
While school policies are not a panacea, gender and sexuality diversity-inclusive policies have the potential to relieve educators’ concerns about...
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School-wide positive behavioural support in remote Australian schools: challenges in implementation
Providing behavioural support to all students is increasingly recognised as an integral part of teaching and learning in schools throughout the...
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“To Be Self-Critical Doesn’t Serve in Its Best Interests”: Stakeholder Perspectives on How Private Schools Enable Racial Discrimination
Most private schools in the United States have a history of racialized segregation. Despite this, families from historically oppressed backgrounds...
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International schools, international mindedness, and the development of global citizenship: Reflections from a case study of international schools in Cyprus
International schools encourage international mindedness, which in turn supports global citizenship education (GCE). This article responds to the...
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Vertical Schools as Community Hubs
Vertical schools are an emerging form of school design in Australia. Hundreds of vertical schools, usually between four and seventeen stories, will...