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Family and Community Partnerships in Education
Linda Mitchell, Jane Furness, Bronwen Cowie, Maretta Taylor
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Family and Community Partnerships in EducationIntroductionEducation often involves partnerships, of which the teacher-learner relationship, as the mos...
Family Day Care
Sue Owen
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Family Day CareIntroductionFamily day care is a form of childcare based in the home of the provider: in other words, the care of children by non-relat...
Federal Government Programs and Issues
Paul Manna
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2011-12-15
Federal Government Programs and Issues Introduction Since the founding of the United States, subnational levels of government have shouldered t...
Finance, Education
James W. Guthrie, Patrick J. Schuermann
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2011-12-15
Education Finance Introduction Education finance refers to governmental and organizational processes by which revenues are generated (through t...
Financial Aid
Donald E. Heller
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2011-12-15
Financial Aid Introduction Financial aid refers to money provided to students to help them pay the tuition, fees, and other charges associa...
Formative Assessment
Leslie W. Grant, Christopher R. Gareis, Sarah P. Hylton
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Formative AssessmentIntroductionFormative assessment has received international attention as an instructional approach that has great potential to imp...
Future-Focused Education
Jane Gilbert
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
Future-Focused EducationIntroduction‘Future-focused education’ is not an easily definable or coherent body of knowledge. It is best described as an em...
Gender and Achievement
Ursula Kessels
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Gender and Achievement Introduction This article covers sources on gender differences in educational outcomes and processes, as well as on pos...
Gifted Education
Sally M. Reis, Joseph S. Renzulli
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2011-12-15
Gifted Education Introduction The field of gifted education is based on the notion that some children and students either with demonstrated ou...
Global Mindedness and Global Citizenship Education
Hyun-Sook Park, Teresa Slobuski, Cassandra Durkee
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Global Mindedness and Global Citizenship EducationIntroductionThe terms global mindedness and global competence refer to the ability of individuals to...
Global University Rankings
Ellen Hazelkorn
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Global University RankingsIntroductionGlobal university rankings have become a significant feature of international higher education and are commonly ...
Governance, Education
Kenneth K. Wong
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2011-12-15
Education Governance Introduction Governance in public education involves different levels of the government. In the United States the fede...
Grounded Theory
Robert Thornberg
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Grounded TheoryIntroductionGrounded theory (GT) is a research approach to study processes, interactions, and actions for the purpose of developing mid...
Growth of Effective Mental Health Services in Schools in the United States, The
Mark Weist, David Riddle, Ashley Quell, Cameron Massey, Crystal M. Kremer
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
The Growth of Effective Mental Health Services in Schools in the United StatesIntroductionThis chapter provides a review of the movement toward more c...
High-stakes Testing
M. Gail Jones, Megan Ennes
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
High-Stakes TestingIntroductionHigh-stakes testing in schools is based on the premise that student learning will increase if educators and students ar...
Higher Education and Globalization
Brendan Cantwell, Sanfeng Miao
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Higher Education and GlobalizationIntroductionIn the 1990s researchers began to observe globalization processes in higher education. This observation ...
Higher Education and the Developing World
Christopher S. Collins, Meg DuMez
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Higher Education and the Developing WorldIntroductionHigher education in the developing world is a subsection of the larger topic of international iss...
Higher Education Faculty Characteristics and Trends in the United States and Europe
Liudvika Leišytė, Nadine Zeeman
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Higher Education Faculty Characteristics and Trends in the United States and EuropeIntroductionThe characteristics of higher education faculty describ...
Higher Education Finance
Ben Jongbloed
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2020-11-24
Higher Education FinanceIntroductionThe financing of higher (or tertiary) education deals with issues of resourcing (i.e., funding) higher education i...
Higher Education Governance
Michael Dobbins, Jens Jungblut
Subject: Education »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Higher Education GovernanceIntroductionThe governance of higher education has been a prominent topic for investigation at least since Burton Clark’s f...
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