Education & Pedagogy

This book provides a common language for and makes connections between transfer research in mathematics education and transfer research in related fields. It generates renewed excitement for and increased visibility of transfer research, by showcasing and aggregating leading-edge research from the transfer research community. This book also helps to establish transfer as a sub-field of research within mathematics education and extends and refines alternate perspectives on the transfer of learning. The book provides an overview of current knowledge in the field as well as informs future transfer research.

In 2011, the "Let's Count" professional learning program was developed into an elective distance education subject offered at Charles Sturt University. The resulting subject, EMC101: Let's Count, has been offered every year since 2012, and has to date been completed by 796 students. This paper details the subject design and provides enrolment and evaluation data that attest to the success of the subject. [This paper is the second in a symposium of three papers. For the first paper, "'Let's Count' in an Online Learning Environment", see ED616193. For the third paper, "'Let's Count' and Community Professionals", see ED616191.]

The OECD Higher Education Policy Survey (HEPS) is a new instrument developed by the OECD Higher Education Policy Team to gather comparative information on system features and characteristics of policies across OECD jurisdictions, to support policy analysis and peer learning. The first HEPS was fielded in 2020, to support the ongoing thematic project on Resourcing Higher Education. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the results of the survey, examining student support systems, institutional funding mechanisms, human resource policies and higher education resource governance across the 29 OECD jurisdictions responding to the survey.

Working within the field of creativity can be difficult within a context of the arts. Just mentioning the word could get you into trouble. One thought is that in arts education we don't talk about creativity in fear of loosing the "magic" about it. The arts are per se a creative context so why bother defining it, describing it, or even researching it? It just is. In this chapter, I discuss this tension and provide examples of work that gives creativity a voice in Music Teacher Education. [For the complete volume, "Creative Contradictions in Education: Cross Disciplinary Paradoxes and Perspectives. Creativity Theory and Action in Education. Volume 1," see ED612145.]

This document presents statistics about higher education in Maryland for 2021. The tables in this document are presented according to the following categories: (1) Students; (2) Retention, Graduation, & Transfer; (3) Degrees; (4) Faculty & Staff; (5) Revenues & Expenditures; (6) Tuition & Fees; (7) Financial Aid; (8) Private Career Schools; and (9) Distance Education. [For "Maryland Higher Education Commission Data Book 2021. Revised," see ED611860.]

"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Digital Learning Meets Digital Democracy: Alliance for Excellent Education Accepting Public Feedback on New Digital Learning Draft State Legislation; (2) Digital Learning Day 2013 Set for February 6: New DigitalLearningDay.org Website Provides Opportunities for Everyone to Be Involved, Demonstrates How Digital Learning Is Improving Education; (3) Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Until Tomorrow?: Congressional Leaders Agree to Postpone Spending Decisions Until New Congress Convenes in 2013; (4) "Under Threat": Senate Report and Hearing Examine Impact of Sequestration on Education. (Contains 1 footnote.)

This paper offers facts and figures on Utah's state of education for 2006. This paper contains the following: (1) Education Contacts; (2) Utah State Board of Education members; (3) Value of Weighted Pupil Unit (WPU) for the 2005-06 school year; (4) Per Pupil Spending in Perspective (2003); (5) Public School Enrollment per district (October 2005-06); (6) Student Proficiency in Core CRT Language Arts Testing 2005; (7) Student Proficiency in Core CRT Math Testing 2005; (8) Public Education Budget--Funding by Source and Expenditures by Function; (9) Public School Enrollment Demographics 2005-06; (10) Public Schools by Grade Level 2005-06; (11) Number of Licensed Educators 2004-05; (12) Average Teacher Salary; and (13) Pupil Teacher Ratio. [For 2005 report, see ED537737.]

This report proposes that the turn toward deeper learning in education reform should go hand in hand with a renewed emphasis on high-quality civics education. Not only does deeper learning have great potential to promote civic outcomes and strengthen our democracy but, at the same time, civic education exemplifies deeper learning, in that it provides students with challenging, collaborative, and engaging experiences. The report addresses evolving contexts for civics education and suggests a shared agenda, calling for new approaches in teaching civics that involve deeper and more collaborative learning, take better advantage of advanced technologies, are assessed in more authentic ways, and pervade the entire high school curriculum.

This report details Mississippi's participation in SREB programs and services from December 2013 through November 2014. Appropriations from member states support SREB's core operations and general services. SREB leverages the long-standing commitment of member states to attract external funding for an array of targeted projects for educational improvement efforts in member states. Mississippi receives a number of general services, plus access to programs funded by grants, contracts and fees for specific services. [For "The Southern Regional Education Board and Member States, December 2014," see ED565300.]

This report details Georgia's participation in SREB programs and services from December 2013 through November 2014. Appropriations from member states support SREB's core operations and general services. SREB leverages the long-standing commitment of member states to attract external funding for an array of targeted projects for educational improvement efforts in member states. Georgia receives a number of general services, plus access to programs funded by grants, contracts and fees for specific services. [For "The Southern Regional Education Board and Member States, December 2014," see ED565300.]

This report details Arkansas's participation in SREB programs and services from December 2013 through November 2014. Appropriations from member states support SREB's core operations and general services. SREB leverages the long-standing commitment of member states to attract external funding for an array of targeted projects for educational improvement efforts in member states. Arkansas receives a number of general services, plus access to programs funded by grants, contracts and fees for specific services. [For "The Southern Regional Education Board and Member States, December 2014," see ED565300.]

We explored primary pre-service teachers' beliefs about challenging mathematical tasks and the role they perceived their initial teacher education played in influencing those aspects. Fifty-seven pre-service teachers completed an online questionnaire, and four participants were individually interviewed. Results showed that most participants recognised the importance of teaching with challenging mathematical tasks even prior to exposure to such content in their teacher education program. The teacher education program was perceived to have positively impacted final year pre-service teachers' perspectives about challenging tasks. Implications for teacher education regarding challenging tasks are discussed.

The Real Education for Healthy Youth Act (REHYA) (H.R. 1706, S. 2765) was reintroduced by Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) in March 2015 and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) in April 2016. REHYA would ensure that federal funding is allocated to comprehensive sexual health education programs that provide young people with the skills and information they need to make informed, responsible, and healthy decisions. This legislation sets forth a vision for comprehensive sexual health education programs in the United States. [This Policy Brief was updated by Zenen Jaimes Pérez and Abbey Marr.]

The author has been involved in cross-national research regarding the motivations of students for studying Comparative Education. A wide variety of motivations were identified, depending on national context. This paper begins by summarizing those findings. On a recent bout as guest professor teaching Comparative Education at a Canadian university, yet another interesting employment of Comparative Education was discovered, namely that of introducing international students (from an extra-Western context) to Western education and its philosophical superstructure and the exigencies of studying at a Western university; thus preparing these students for studying at a North American university. This paper reports on that experience. [For complete volume, see ED567040.]

This four-part workbook will help program leaders teach education specialists the principles, processes, and skills necessary to deliver effective Supported Education services. The workbook includes the following: (1) Basic elements and practice principles of Supported Education; (2) Knowledge and skills to help consumers make informed choices about returning to school; (3) Skills and supports to help enrollment activities; and (4) Follow-along activities to support educational goals. It also includes exercises and activities that education specialists can complete to master necessary skills. Use this workbook to train your Supported Education staff.