In this article, I draw parallels between the Arab countries of the Gulf region and Canada's First Nations, focusing on how dependence on unearned income may be linked to educational underachievement. The rentier dynamics in the Gulf region has weakened ties between state and society, constructing one-way patronage flows without benefit or need for significant social consent. Despite vast investments in human capital, educational outcomes in the Gulf have fallen far short of expectations....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Arabs, Income, Economics, Outcomes of Education,...
This paper is set against a history of school funding policies in Australia that begins with the first public policy recognition of the disadvantages experienced by government and non-government schools in the 1973 Schools in Australia (Karmel) Report. The paper traces a history of school funding policy linking it with the current backlash against public education and retaliatory backlash constructions of public schools as the new disadvantaged in an increasingly competitive and deregulated...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Politics, State Schools, Public Education, Private...
This article presents the author's vision of the future of education and focuses on instructional revolution during the 21st century when school leaders and the democracy were struggling with redesigning the educational system. The author states that the instructional revolution was itself propelled by the rapid-fire advancement in information and communications technology. The technology allowed teachers to transform education rather than just automate old ways of learning. At the beginning of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Communications, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society),...
This study examined the trend of identification and achievement patterns of performance task-identified students over a span of 6 years (2000-2005), in comparison to profiles of students who were identified exclusively through traditional ability and achievement tests. The study findings suggested that the performance-based protocols were consistent across time in locating a higher percentage of low-income and minority students, as well as female students for gifted programs; a higher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Gifted, Academic Achievement, Identification, Achievement Tests, Program...
The study uses individual data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey to consider economic factors in university participation decisions by persons aged 17-24 from 1976 to 2003. The level of real tuition is one economic factor that may affect the university participation decision. There is also regional variation in the opportunity cost of university attendance; in the reduction in the probability of unemployment after obtaining a university degree; and in the proportion of university budgets...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Probability, Paying for College, Economic...
High on any required reading list for college-level student affairs officers and high school counselors is "Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation" by Neil Howe and William Strauss (2000). Experts on generational change in the United States, the authors contend that the current generation of college-age and pre-college-age students possesses many unique qualities that will both delight and challenge professionals working at various stages of the educational continuum. According...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Counselors, Educational Trends, Cohort Analysis, Student Personnel Workers,...
Technology education has progressed through several iterations over the past 100 years and continues to evolve as the primary medium for preparing children and youth in technological literacy. Over the past 20 years, technology education has worked diligently to move from a subject field where students primarily manipulated materials (industrial arts) to one of systematic instruction about technological systems and enterprises (technology education). The "Standards for Technological...
Topics: ERIC Archive, National Surveys, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Technological Literacy,...
In this ever-changing economy, young adults must remain flexible and adaptable as they transition from school to work and plan their future life courses. It is difficult for today's youth to choose training programs which will guarantee them secure, long-term employment. As the future grows less predictable, greater uncertainty and risk are involved in each career decision. This study concerns young adults enrolled in vocational education and training programs. The study sought to investigate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Technical Institutes, Focus Groups, Young Adults, Education Work Relationship,...
What David J. Ferrero has called "the Hundred Year's War between "progressives" and "traditionalists"" continues unabated in the twenty-first century. Undoubtedly, current initiatives in public education favor those who support traditional approaches, yet many critics believe inflexible state tests are restricting teachers' flexibility in employing methods other than teacher-centered direct instruction. President Bush's proposal for extending mandatory testing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Education, Teaching Methods, Progressive Education, Politics of Education,...
Reforms in education and training are the order of the day in the spirit of maintaining relevance in this changing world. This paper looks at the development of vocational education and training (VET) in Kenya at three levels: the past, the present and the future directions. A brief historical discussion forms a basis for understanding the trends in Kenya's VET. A discussion of the current state of affairs highlights the main issues that are at play in Kenya's VET sector. From the issues that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational History,...
This study assessed internships associated with health education professional programs in the U.S. This study updates findings from an earlier survey published in 1990. Using the 2003 "AJHE" directory of institutions, 255 health education professional preparation programs were identified. Two hundred and eleven institutions had a health education/promotion or community health program and were sent a survey packet. Of the 211 surveys sent, 124 completed surveys were returned. Results...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Health Education, Health Programs, Public Health, Work Experience, Internship...
In this paper, the authors explore the latest manifestation of backward curriculum discourse, namely, a theory of "backward" unit design. The authors view this "backward" curriculum discourse as foundationally positivist and/or structural, yet they adopt a poststructural point of view. This theoretical undergirding makes it possible to rethink underlying, taken for granted assumptions. Their focus is on illuminating the potential problems of "structure-based,"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Design, Models, Educational Trends, Outcomes of Education, Educational...
Character education, the instruction of core ethical values and cultivation of good conduct in the classroom, is increasingly being incorporated in public school curricula across the country. Over the last few years, schools in 48 states have introduced programs in character education as a means to nurture moral behavior among the youth. Public support for the addition of character education to school curricula is the strongest it has been since the 1950s, and it is bolstered by a variety of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Values Education, Standards, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation,...
This article presents the New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE) Trends & Indicators in Higher Education, featuring 64 tables and charts exploring New England's demography, high school performance and graduation, college enrollment, college graduation rates and degree production, higher education financing, and university research. The figures presented in this report are organized to correspond with the four goals of the New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE's)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Management Systems, School Readiness, Graduation Rate, Demography,...
New England and the nation as a whole is facing intensifying global competition and rapidly growing demands for a skilled workforce. In addition, significant increases in spending by students and taxpayers have not moved the needle: the percentage of adults with a college degree has changed little over the past decade. New England must act now to boost productivity because key trends suggest that only little time has been left. This article presents the four converging trends that spell serious...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Global Approach, Labor Force, Educational...
New England institutions have long been in the forefront of recruiting foreign students. Recently, the numbers of foreign students studying in the United States has declined partly as a result of visa problems, widespread perceptions that the United States no longer welcomes foreign students and increasing anti-Americanism abroad. The primary barrier to increasing numbers of foreign students, however, has been, and still is, lack of financing. Foreign students are not eligible for most forms of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Recruitment, Foreign Students, Student Loan Programs, Access to Education,...
Most people in higher education believe in continuity, in respecting traditions. That makes it easy to miss the startling changes and compelling opportunities that confront the academic enterprise. In this article, the author presents a few trends that are dramatically altering higher education in New England: (1) more women than men are attending college; (2) Hispanics are the most rapidly growing ethnic and racial minority in New England; (3) the number of students taking online courses has...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Hispanic...
Here is a short presentation of the main statistical indicators for higher education. The analysis was structured on national and regional level and also taking in account the differences between private and state universities. We have focused on some indicators regarding students and teachers flows. Romanian case is a special one, that had no private education during communist era and an exponential development after 1990. (Contains 9 figures and 3 tables.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Private Education, Higher Education, State Universities, Foreign Countries,...
This article seeks to articulate developing trends in art education and practice, locating such movements within the broader cultural contexts of globalization, neoliberal capitalism, and postmodernity. Against this more general synopsis, the autobiographical position of the author as a student and teacher of art will be elucidated as inextricably entwined with such cultural movements. This entwinement will be understood both in terms of its capacity to "position" the subject, and yet...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art Education, Educational Trends, Global Approach, Postmodernism, Sex Stereotypes,...
Mobile learning is variously viewed as a fad, a threat, and an answer to the learning needs of time-poor mobile workers, so does it have a place in delivering mainstream learning? Based on a 2005 comparative research project, commissioned by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, the paper reports on research into Web-based information about the use of mobile technologies for commerce and learning, which was then tested through 29 interviews with manufacturers of mobile devices, businesses...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Learning Activities, Internet,...
m-Learning is made possible by the existence and application of mobile hardware and networking technology. By exploring the capabilities of these technologies, it is possible to construct a picture of how different components of m-Learning can be implemented. This paper will explore the major technologies currently in use: portable digital assistants (PDAs), Short Message Service (SMS) messaging via mobile phone, and podcasts via MP3 players.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Internet, Computers, Telecommunications, Educational Technology, Technology...
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in understanding the levels and trends in high school graduation in the U.S. A big and influential literature has argued that the "true" high school graduation rate remains at an unsatisfactory level, and that the graduation rates for minorities (Blacks and Hispanics) are alarmingly low. In this paper we take a closer look at the different measures of high school graduation which have recently been proposed and which yield such low...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Schools, Graduation Rate, Graduation, Educational Trends, Measures...
Since independence in 1991, Ukraine has struggled with restructuring its Soviet style educational system. The process has been sluggish and fraught with tension, resistance, and set backs, mirroring Ukraine's efforts to revamp its economy and regain productivity levels that characterized it prior to independence (Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, 2003). One of the initiatives currently being discussed is integration of students with disabilities with their nondisabled peers in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Inclusive Schools, Mainstreaming, Access to...
The decentralization of the power of school governance is one of the recent trends of educational development in a global society in which the notion of parents as stakeholders and partners of state education is being gradually recognized, albeit at different paces, in several Asian countries. This paper attempts to analyze the chronological development of parent empowerment in Hong Kong. By examining the education policy documents of Hong Kong in the last three decades and looking into related...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Development, Governance, Educational Change, Foreign Countries,...
Along with a socially urgent impetus for revolutionary reform of an educational environment appropriate to the 21st century society, constructivism is highlighted in various fields related to education as an alternative educational ideology and approach. Despite its radical shift from traditional learning environments, and the diverse interpretation and understanding among scholars on the nature of constructivism, constructivism surely has brought out meaningful changes and developments in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Educational Technology, Educational...
Ghosts haunt the school curriculum. Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" provides a starting point for thinking about these curriculum ghosts. In the Preface, he states that he has "endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea". In this article, the author seeks to raise the ghost of an idea, and to have a bit of fun with it by using the methodology of "hauntology" to consider the specters of curriculum past, present and future that haunt...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Foreign Countries, Curriculum...
Technology has changed for the past three decades, but the issues have not. Educators still face barriers to incorporating technology into their lessons. In the past, Dave Moursund, the first executive director of International Society for Technology in Education, wrote editorials predicting technology's impact on education. In this article, the author shares some of the best kernels from Moursund's writings that illustrate not only the rapid progression of technology over three decades, but...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Educational Trends, Educational History, Technology...
Learning is becoming more personal, yet collaborative and networked, portable and situated, ubiquitous and durable--and increasingly at odds with formal education, as more and different types of learning are happening outside of the classroom. In this article, the author provides a glimpse of what the not-so-distant future of education might bring, including increased personalization and customization, learning in context, networking, and the role of digital technologies. The author then...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Internet, Computer Mediated...
This research project sought to determine the origin of the three-component model of agricultural education in the United States and provided a contextual base for future research into the three-component model for agricultural education. The study concluded that each of the three components of the agricultural education model originated at different times in American history but were developed simultaneously. Supervised experience probably originated in colonial America, and formal instruction...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agricultural Education, Integrated Curriculum, Educational History, Educational...
For minority serving institutions, policies that support learners call for decisions about equity, quality, cost, impact on national economic performance and international global relationships.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Minority Groups, Equal Education, Higher Education, Access to Education, Educational...
An increasing number of students in the United States are involved in online education, according to research by the Sloan Foundation. By fall 2004, approximately 2.6 million students were estimated to be enrolled in at least one online course, an average growth rate of 24.8% from 2003-04; this figure represents a 5% increase over the 2002-03 growth rate. The consequence of this continuing expansion of the e-learning population is that policies with respect to student learning/academic programs...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Online Courses, Distance Education, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Program...
In this article, the author reflects on the historical work and scholarly contributions of Professor William E. Warner, an intellectual genius whose personal and professional energies were devoted to the development and cultivation of industrial arts education. Jerry Striechler challenged the author to "get into Warner's head" and speculate how Warner, who contributed so much to the conceptualization of technology education, would view the profession's recent accomplishments and what...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Educators, Technology Education, Industrial Arts, Biographies, Educational...
Background: The Project Yi Jin (PYJ), an alternative pathway for secondary school leavers and adults to further their education, has been receiving full support from the government, the Federation for Continuing Education in Tertiary Institutions (FCE) in Hong Kong and the public. Graduates of PYJ have the equivalent academic status of their counterparts in the main stream education. It was first implemented in 2000/01 by the FCE and has been offered to more than 35,000 students by 2006/07....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Mass Instruction,...
A significant trend in technology education has shown internationally widespread acceptance with the increasing needs of developing students' technological literacy on both the elementary and secondary level from manual training to basic competency. Therefore, more and more countries have developed their national technology standards in order to enhance students' technological literacy. Over the past several years there has been a considerable amount of professional pressure, and numerous...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Technological Literacy, Ethics,...
Since the mid 1970s the national rate at which incoming 9th graders have completed high school has fallen slowly but steadily; this is also true in 41 states. In 2002, about three in every four students who might have completed high school actually did so; in some states this figure is substantially lower. In this paper I review state-level measures of high school completion rates and describe and validate a new measure that reports these rates for 1975 through 2002. Existing measures based on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Schools, Graduation Rate, Grade Repetition, Dropouts, Grade 9, Educational...
This article deals with the education policy in Greece during the period 1976 to 1997, with special focus on the policy that is in practice since 1997. During the early 1990s, the important changes at international and local levels had established the foundations for this policy, which is significantly different from the ones implemented during the twenty five years before that and has effected a total transformation of the Greek educational system. The analysis of this policy, including a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Trend...
In this article, we argue that the debates about mathematics education that have arisen in the United States over the past decade are the result of a major shift in how we conceptualize mathematical knowledge and mathematics learning. First, we examine past efforts to change mathematics education and argue they are grounded in a common traditional paradigm. Next, we describe the emergence of a new paradigm that has grown out of a coalescence of theories from cognitive psychology, an awareness...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematics Education, Educational Change, Concept Formation, Grounded Theory,...
This paper reports on the analysis of state statutes and department of education regulations in fifty states for changes in teacher evaluation in use since the passage of No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. We asked what the policy activity for teacher evaluation is in state statutes and department of education regulations, how these changes in statutes and regulations might affect the practice of teacher evaluation, and what were the implications for instructional supervision from these policy...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Evaluation, Federal Legislation, Educational Change, Politics of Education,...
Every state in the United States, under the NCLB act, has set state standards and is testing all students in grades 3-8. Students are given printed questions to which they write answers with a pencil on an answer sheet. These written tests are usually given to determine the academic achievements of students. This paper traces the early history of the written examination and the change in the meaning of "standards" from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century. Although...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Testing, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Standard Setting, Measurement,...
In this paper, two nationwide assessments for elementary and secondary students' educational achievement in Korea were reviewed for their assessment frameworks and the overall results; the Diagnostic Test for Basic Skills (DTBS) of Grade 3 elementary students and the National Assessment of Educational Achievement (NAEA) for Grade 6, 9 and 10 students. Also, the results for Korea in two large-scale international comparison studies were reviewed; the Trends in International Mathematics &...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Diagnostic Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Grade 9, Grade...
Today, information and communication technologies such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter are some of the most popular technologies available on the Internet, with millions of users worldwide. Research is still trying to discover how people use them, for what purposes, and in what settings, and investigate how they may be shaping the ways they think, work, and communicate. In this article, the author describes two of the trends in using these tools that she and her colleagues see happening,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Networks, Internet, Educational Trends, Web Sites, Computer Mediated...
Changes in the language we use to talk about our activities in service of this mission and a concomitant increased emphasis on blended learning are two trends that emphasize the importance retaining important meaning and knowledge associated with earlier practice and do not limit our thinking by unnecessarily circumscribed discourse. Educators should keep an intentional awareness of the "distance" inherent in the activities and a focus on the multidimensional nature of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Distance Education, Blended Learning, Educational Principles, Educational Trends,...
The Eduventures survey examined next-generation demand for online postsecondary education, assessing online experience, delivery mode and marketing channels preferences, and perceptions of price, quality and location, identifying key takeaways in each area.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, National Surveys, Marketing, Educational Trends, Age Differences,...
"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke those words more than 50 years ago. It was a time when students took classes called "shop," and those students were almost exclusively boys. Home economics classes, on the other hand, were filled with girls learning cooking and sewing. Business classes often meant typing and shorthand for girls, while mostly boys learned about farming in the classes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Majors (Students), Home Economics, Information Technology, Agricultural Education,...
The subject of this investigation is the composition and distribution of students of Armenian educational institutions and their partition in the state and private sectors of higher education. The study examines the general rise of educational institutions, particularly private ones, where the average number of students is considerably less than in the state institutions of higher learning. There has also been an increase in the number of students in state-paid and private higher education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Educational...
This article presents the results on the effects of professional development in context by examining how much average change over time there is in different dimensions of teaching practice. In particular, three years of data on teaching practice are used to describe trends and differences across teachers and schools in the three broad aspects of teaching practice: (1) the overall alignment of teaching with national standards, using the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) as the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, National Standards, Teaching Methods, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Educational...
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science studies provide country-level data for tracking changes in student achievement over time. In this paper the author has developed a method for identifying and monitoring trends in student achievement above or below any specified cut-point on these tests. The method involved the use of the Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke indices, as well as a modified version of these indices. The ability to identify and monitor trends in student achievement at...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Evaluation Methods, Educational...
Until the nineteen hundreds, people with disabilities did not receive formal educational services in Kenya. This paper discusses available educational services for individuals with visual impairments in terms of their forms, materials provided, and educational placements. Areas of most progress are discussed along with obstacles that stand in the way of efficient services for this population. This paper contributes to the rather scarce literature on educational services for students with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Visual Impairments, Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Academic Accommodations...
This paper will explore emerging benefits of telecollaboration and telementoring through an examination of the literature, a reflection on current practices at the University of Virginia and the University of South Florida, and a forecast proposal for potential seamless integration of technology with teacher preparation and training in schools of the future. Future considerations for teachers, students, and our learning communities are discussed, and a brief presentation of current research in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Methods Courses, Social Studies, Instructional Innovation, Technology Integration,...
This paper provides a perspective on post-secondary education systems in the countries of the former USSR with the objective of building potential linkages for North American Colleges with the higher education institutions in Eastern Europe. (Contains 3 tables.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Intercollegiate...