Networked global learning communities build partnership programs between higher education institutions and high schools which allow students, teachers and professors to attend and work in college preparation programs located in countries outside of their native lands. These educational programs help to promote development of transnational policies and procedure reforms to provide access to univ...

This Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) is currently undergoing major educational reforms and improvement at all levels of the system. Schools have been given responsibility for implementing changes through the establishment of school-based management. is your abstract School leaders now have the important role of initiating and implementing school improvement, which necessitate new forms of leadership....

Classrooms in America are overwhelmingly authoritarian and undemocratic. They focus on fragmented knowledge that is disconnected from the students’ lives. Proven reforms are resisted at all levels, and systematic progressive change is non-existent nearly a century after the progressive movement. Why is this so? The standard liberal outlook is that the schools are ‘broken’ and ‘neglected’, but t...

Since the 1970s, a number of initiatives have attempted to increase the proportion of nursing graduates with a baccalaureate degree, but with little national effect. Now market forces, health reforms, and an Institute of Medicine report (2011) have combined to transform the educational composition of the nursing workforce. Today, there are considerably more graduates of baccalaureate nursing pr...

In the context of a new era, field education is experiencing rapid development, and society paying increasing attention to implementation educational reforms. This requires universities develop detailed feasible strategies for ideological political in response societal changes. process implementing adjustments reforms, it necessary deeply integrate with student management. integration aims prom...

This study examines teachers’ accounts of what is happening in practices the School-age Educare centre (SAEC) when faced with pressure from policy reforms to adopt digital technology and promote competence as both a requirement right for all children. The aim explain anticipated tensions that may produce (im)possible SAECs. conducted teachers three SAECs Sweden. Reflection conversations intervi...

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to overall educational expenditure of the recipient government, (ii) the strength of the link between governme...

The study presents the change of the system of curriculum regulation in Hungary during the nineties with adouble focus. The presented case is put into the broader context of educational change with the aim to helpthe understanding of why and how reforms occur in education systems. It is also put into the broaderproblematic of transitions from non-democratic regimes to democracy and ...

Part of recent reforms of postgraduate medical training in the Netherlands is the introduction of formatively intended knowledge testing or progress testing. We previously evaluated the construct validity and reliability of postgraduate progress testing. However, when assessment is intended to be formative, the acceptability of the test (scores) and the educational impact that is achieved are a...