Issue Brief: Focus on Employment

This brief focuses on education of boys and young men of color and was prepared for the, "Investing in Boys and Young Men of Color: The Promise and Opportunity," briefing held on June 11, 2014 in Washington, DC. The brief includes data providing the national context, promising program models, and strategies for moving forward

Issue Brief: Focus on Education

This brief focuses on education of boys and young men of color and was prepared for the, "Investing in Boys and Young Men of Color: The Promise and Opportunity," briefing held on June 11, 2014 in Washington, DC. The brief includes data providing the national context, promising program models, and strategies for moving forward

Soo Hyon Kim Assistant Profess of English (COLA) travels to New Zealand

In November 2015, I traveled to Auckland, New Zealand to present a paper at the 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing. The annual symposium, since its inception in 1998, has been devoted to moving forward the field of second language writing and encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars situated in fields such as applied linguistics, composition and rhetoric, education, and foreign language studies

A Call for Change: The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Urban Schools

The Council of the Great City Schools is a coalition of 65 of the country's biggest urban school systems. Educating nearly 30 percent of the country's African-American males, urban schools are vital to black male achievement. This study draws attention to new analyses of disaggregated education data, profiles black males who have achieved academic success, and provides a plan of action moving forward

Changing Teacher Education: Challenging Assumptions and Moving Forward

This issue marks the first under the direction of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Kansas State University. This issue is devoted to the theme Changing Teacher Education, and our contributing authors explore various aspects of change and their implications for both teacher education as well as K-12 education. The issue also includes a new feature, Key Conversations, devoted to an interview with a leading figure whose work illuminates the theme of the issue

Legal Content in Adult Education Graduate Curricula: Moving Forward

This roundtable discusses data gathered and steps currently being taken concerning including legal content in certain adult education graduate programs

A Look at Education Through the Eyes of the World’s Children

The research being presented in this poster examines the current state of primary education globally. It will examine what the largest contributing factors are to children of primary age not attending primary education with a goal to propose some changes to education moving forward to insure 100% of children globally attend primary education

Promoting inclusion and equity in Latin America: making sense of the challenges

Finding ways of including all children in schools is a challenge facing education systems throughout the world (Ainscow, 2016). In economically poorer countries this is mainly about the millions of children who are not able to attend formal education (UNESCO, 2015). Meanwhile, in wealthier countries many young people leave school with no worthwhile qualifications, whilst others are placed in special provision away from mainstream education, and some choose to drop out since the lessons seem irrelevant (OECD, 2012). Faced with these challenges, there is evidence of an increased interest in the idea of making education more inclusive and equitable. However, the field remains confused as to the actions needed in order to move policy and practice forward. This paper uses evidence from our experiences in five Latin America countries (i.e. Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay) to address this agenda. In particular, we focus on the following questions: • What are the barriers that limit the participation and learning of some children in Latin American countries? • How can these barriers be best understood? • What does this mean for moving education systems forward? The analysis presented leads us to describe and reflect on the processes we have used to generate evidence in relation to these questions. As a result, we propose a framework that might be useful to those wishing to review the situation in other countries. We start, however, by outlining the contexts for our work.Organization of American States Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech