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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey +3 more
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Chartering Turnaround: Leveraging Public Charter School Autonomy to Address Failure [PDF]
, 2015 Persistently low-achieving public schools around the country have received $5.8 billion from the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, in addition to district and state funds, and other supplementary federal funds.
Julie Corbett
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Assessing the Increasing Strength of Charter Laws [PDF]
, 2015 Since 2005, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (National Alliance) has advocated for high-quality public charter school laws. With the support of a working group with deep expertise in public charter school law, we released a model charter ...
Todd Ziebarth
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Climate Change Risks and Customer Concentration: Evidence From US‐Listed Firms
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While prior studies have investigated climate risks in supply chains, customer ESG pressures, and shared climate exposure, this paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to provide direct empirical evidence on the relationship between climate change risks and firms' customer concentration.
Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen +2 more
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Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED [PDF]
The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic
Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Vilsa E. Curto
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Measuring Up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws, 2014 [PDF]
, 2014 This report evaluates each state's charter school law against the 20 essential components of a strong public charter school law. These 20 components are drawn from National Alliance's A New Model Law For Supporting The Growth Of High-Quality Public ...
Todd Ziebarth
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An Examination of Student Achievement in Michigan Charter Schools
Since their inception in 1991, the number of and the student enrollment in charter schools have burgeoned. However, little attention has been paid to their effects on student achievement.
Kevin Hollenbeck, Randall W. Eberts
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Comparison of charter, magnet, and innovation schools
, 2014 "September 10, 2014."; Discusses the state laws and funding for three types of public schools: charter, schools, interdistrict magnet schools, and innovation schools.
Moran, John,
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Changing School Autonomy: Academy Schools and their Introduction to England's Education [PDF]
In this paper, we study a high profile case - the introduction of academy schools into the English secondary school sector - that has allowed schools to gain more autonomy and flexible governance by changing their school structure. We consider the impact
James Vernoit, Stephen Machin
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