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Improving education equality and quality: Evidence from a natural experiment in China
Publication date: October 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 70Author(s): Yu Zhang, Fei Qin, Juanjuan LiuAbstractEducation policies which return both quality and equality are important not only to students but also for the sustainable development of society as a whole. It is important to investigate the efficacy of such policies to build a knowledge base for future research and practice. Framed by prior research and a model of policy optimization, this paper reports on a natural experiment which involved analysis of nine years of panel data. The results indicate that the case study high sc...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - July 12, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Pride and the True Colors of the Holy Land: School Climate for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in Israel
Publication date: October 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 70Author(s): Oren Pizmony-Levy, Avner Rogel, Guy ShiloAbstractIn conjunction with global efforts, Israel has committed to promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students’ rights to a safe, affirming learning environment. Given Israeli society’s mostly negative perception of homosexuality as well as the growing role of religious parties in the government, the authors question the extent to which this commitment is realized. Using data from the Israeli School Climate Survey conducted in 2016 (n = 909), thi...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - July 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

College expectations and choices: Explaining the gaps in college enrollment for high- and low-SES students in China
This study aims to better understand how college expectations influence college enrollment during the process of transition from high school to college, using a baseline and follow-up survey of high school students from Shaanxi Province in China. The findings show that students from low-SES families tended to have higher college expectations, whereas students from high-SES families were more likely to be accepted into college and more likely to attend college, even conditional on admission. We also found different patterns in college application behaviors between high- and low-SES students. Students from high-SES families ...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - July 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

The link between educational expenditures and student learning outcomes: Evidence from Cyprus
Publication date: October 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 70Author(s): Leonidas Kyriakides, Andreas Stylianou, Maria Eliophotou MenonAbstractThe paper investigates the relationship between educational expenditures and student learning outcomes in the Republic of Cyprus. Using Multilevel Regression Analysis and Discriminant Function Analysis, we investigate the extent to which changes in the effectiveness status of schools can be related to changes in educational investment. Based on the findings, educational investment had a positive effect on the effectiveness status of a school if inv...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - July 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Does higher education expansion in Cambodia make access to education more equal?
Publication date: October 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 70Author(s): Phal CheaAbstractThis paper provides empirical evidence on the trends of how demand-side factors predict the probabilities of enrollment in higher education in Cambodia between 2004 and 2014, using nationally representative household survey data with multinomial logistic regression approach. The findings suggest that higher education expansion in Cambodia is in favor of students from affluent families residing in the capital. However, students of disadvantaged backgrounds are likely to benefit more from the higher ed...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - June 30, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Spending privately for education in Nepal. Who spends more on it and why?
Publication date: September 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 69Author(s): Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Asankha PallegedaraAbstractUsing information collected from the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) 2010-11, this study shows that in Nepal, relatively rich, more educated and urban parents are more likely to send their children to private schools and hire tutors for private tuition. Thus, they spend more on children education. In contrast, economically lagging, less educated, backward caste and rural households mostly send their children to public schools, where the pu...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - June 26, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Investing in school readiness: A comparison of different early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia
Publication date: September 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 69Author(s): Nozomi Nakajima, Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Sally Brinkman, Menno Pradhan, Angela KinnellAbstractThis paper documents that children in rural Indonesia participate in a great variety of early childhood education pathways. Three key factors predict early education pathways: household wealth, mother’s education, and the quality of available services. We also find that children who enrolled in playgroup programs at age 3–4 followed by kindergarten programs at age 5–6 scored significantly higher on primary school tes...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - June 21, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Editorial Board
Publication date: July 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 68Author(s): (Source: International Journal of Educational Development)
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - June 12, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Strategic instrument or social institution: Rationalized myths of the university in stakeholder perceptions of higher education reform in Poland
Publication date: September 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 69Author(s): Marta A. ShawAbstractEuropean universities have come under reform pressures to make them instruments of social and economic development, compromising their earlier status as socially buffered institutions. The aim of this paper was to investigate the hypothesis that tensions and inconsistencies in recent higher education reforms in Poland trace back to a fundamental conflict between institutional and instrumental visions of the university. Findings suggest an intersection of “rationalized myths” that locks the ...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - June 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Understanding Chinese rural-to-urban migrant children’s education predicament: A dual system perspective
This article intends to shed light on the plight of these migrant children by elaborating on the relationship between the Chinese rural-urban dual system and the practice of development in China. The article concludes that these migrant children, stranded between the two systems, are the de facto victims of Chinese development, which has been based on a long-maintained “one country, two societies” strategy since the 1950s (Source: International Journal of Educational Development)
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - June 5, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Measuring literacy outcomes for the blind and for the deaf: Nationally representative results from Kenya
Publication date: September 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 69Author(s): Benjamin Piper, Jennae Bulat, Dunston Kwayumba, John Oketch, Lilian Gangla (Source: International Journal of Educational Development)
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - June 5, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

IJED Editorial
Publication date: Available online 3 June 2019Source: International Journal of Educational DevelopmentAuthor(s): Stephen P. Heyneman (Source: International Journal of Educational Development)
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - June 5, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

From ideological tensions to pedagogical solutions: Narratives of Israeli arab-palestinian civics teachers
This study wishes to advance the ongoing discourses of civic education and practices of teaching civics by focusing on the realities of minority civics teachers, who are in conflictual relations with the ruling majority. Focusing on narratives of eight Israeli Arab-Palestinian civics teachers, we traced three central ideological tensions that they encountered: 1) Between conflicting identities; 2) Between the official curriculum and students’ lived experiences, and 3) Between active and passive modes of citizenship. The main argument highlights the teachers’ reflections on pedagogy and teaching practices seen by them a...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - May 29, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Effects of Private Tutoring on English Performance: Evidence from Senior High Students in Taiwan
Publication date: July 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 68Author(s): Chang Chih-HaoAbstractPrivate tutoring has expanded as a global phenomenon and is receiving increasing research attention, but evaluation studies on private tutoring are lacking. By performing a control-group pretest-posttest experiment, this study examined the effectiveness of English private tutoring (EPT) on the academic performance of Taiwanese secondary school learners. One group of students (N = 100) participated in EPT for three months and was compared to a non-tutored control group (N = 100). Using natio...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - May 24, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

“Glocal” neoliberal trends in Israeli education: The case of religionization
Publication date: July 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 68Author(s): Clara SabbaghAbstractAs a political mechanism in Israeli education, statism (Mamlachtiut) has operated to enhance the nation-state’s goals and ensure equality of opportunities. I demonstrate that global neoliberal trends have eroded the Israeli statist (Mamlachti) education system, giving rise to a new, partially privatized “quasi-market” educational platform. Within this dynamic, Israeli Education Ministry officials can be seen as actors determined to promote the privatization of the public education sphere, in c...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - May 24, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research