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Teacher hiring within a diverse school district
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-07-24) Perrone, Frank; Eddy-Spicer, David
Research examining the teacher hiring process is scant and has largely ignored the principal’s role. This qualitative, comparative case study uses Person-Environment fit to explore teacher hiring in two high schools with divergent characteristics in the same district. Findings suggest that fit is a dynamic quality, depending on school context and evolving through the phases of hiring and into job performance. Moreover, the dynamic of fit hinges on teacher experience and subject area taught. Awareness of varied trajectories of fit are crucial to the ability of the principal to design an approach to hiring appropriate to her or his school.
How principal leadership and teacher burnout are associated with early career teacher mobility: Insights from the Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Survey
(Routledge, 2020-12-29) Perrone, Frank
Why a diverse leadership pipeline matters: The empirical evidence
(Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022-02-03) Perrone, Frank
This overview of the research revealed that diversity in the pipeline leading to the principalship is lacking and critical. The article first provided a synopsis of educator demographics, illustrating clear disparity in principal representation by race/ethnicity and sex/gender. A subsequent review of relevant empirical research demonstrated clear benefits of having a diverse principal workforce, especially for students and teachers of color. Further examination showed that educators of color and females/women, particularly those of color, face biases and barriers in advancing to the principalship. These biases and barriers have negative implications for individuals in the principal pipeline and educational quality overall.
Fully online principal preparation: Prevalence, institutional characteristics, geography
(Journal of Educational Administration, 2020-03-16) Perrone, Frank; Rice, Mary F.; Anderson, Erin; Budhwani, Sajjid
Purpose: Principal preparation program pedagogy and course delivery are critical to principal candidates’ preparedness to lead. Research around online program delivery, however, is relatively sparse. This study examined the extent to which university-based educational leadership programs offered fully online (FOL) pathways to the principalship, as well as program geographic locations and institutional characteristics most associated with FOL offerings. Methods: Data were collected through website reviews and coding checks and then merged with national postsecondary data. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, classification tree analysis, and geographic information system (GIS) mapping. Findings: Roughly 43% of all reviewed programs offered an FOL pathway to licensure, which suggests substantial growth in FOL offerings over the last 10 years. While a number of factors were deemed important, geographic characteristics were most associated with FOL status. GIS mapping further illustrated findings with a visual landscape of program FOL offerings. Limitations: This study only considered programs for which degrees or certificates could be earned without ever visiting campus in-person for classes. Hybrid programs were not included in the analysis. Implications: Findings make a clear call for more research into online principal preparation program design and course delivery. Originality/Value: This study provides the first overview of fully online university-based principal preparation programs in the United States while also offering a previously unavailable landscape of all programs specifically leading to licensure. It is also the only higher education study to map or investigate factors associated with FOL offerings and raises questions about prior FOL higher education research.
Shifting profile of leadership preparation programs in the 21st century
(Educational Administration Quarterly, 2019) Perrone, Frank; Tucker, Pamela D.
Purpose: A substantial research base focuses on principal preparation program standards, design, and effectiveness. Little is known, however, about which institutions are preparing principal candidates and how many candidates they have produced since 2003. Our study provides the field with a better understanding of the overall preparation landscape and addresses issues of principal supply and demand. Research Methods: We use several national datasets in this exploratory study to track changes in educational administration degree production at the national, state, and university level from 2000 to 2014 as well as how these compare with changing K-12 student populations and principal demand. Findings: Key findings include (a) the number of institutions granting degrees in educational administration increased by 72% this century, (b) the total number of leadership degrees granted doubled over this time period and is substantially larger at all award levels (i.e., postbaccalaureate, master’s, specialist, doctorate) in 2014 than 2000, and (c) the types of institutions offering educational leadership degrees and their production rates have changed dramatically over this time period. Implications: The supply of principal candidates far exceeds the number annual principal openings offering school systems greater choice among candidates. Further research is needed on the issues of readiness and career intentions of the candidates. The majority of growth in program offerings and degrees granted has been generated in less-resourced and less selective institutions. Researchers in the field have argued that adequate resources are critical to providing program components for effective principal preparation thus raising questions about the quality of program candidates.
A Call for Data on the Principal Pipeline
(Educational Researcher, 2022-02-03) Perrone, Frank; Young, Michelle D.; Fuller, Edward J.
In this policy forum commentary, we call for improved national and state-level data collection and access relevant to the principal pipeline. We focus specifically on how access to quality data can inform, has informed, and is critical to policy and practice across three segments of the principal pipeline—principal preparation, licensure, and labor markets—as well as the essential issue of diversity itself and across each pipeline segment. We also outline and explain the types of data collection, storage, and access that would enable more informed and relevant principal pipeline research, policy, and preparation. We then call for action at the state and the federal levels, including reauthorization of the Higher Education Act to expand Title II educator data collection to include principal preparation programs as it does teacher preparation programs. Finally, we conclude with cautions against potential data misuse.
Memoria, Verdad, y Justicia: Commemorative Acts of Solidarity for Memory, Truth, and Justice in South America
(The North Meridian Review: A Journal of Culture and Scholarship, 2020-11-01) Stewart, JesAlana
On March 24, 2016, a national holiday of Remembrance took place in Argentina as a means of commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of los desaparecidos (the disappeared ones). This holiday is a day to remember those who have been lost due to terrorism of the state, to celebrate the end of a murderous military coup, and to come together to demonstrate against past, current, and future crimes against humanity. Of the many groups that come in celebration and protest, none are as renowned or as influential as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. These women spoke out against the military regime when it was most dangerous to do so and gained invaluable steps against infringements on human rights. Thus, this organization became an example for others who fight on a global scale against the disappearances of loved ones, in turn amplifying a movement where individuals make and re-make their identities and activism through connection with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo across national and geographic boundaries. This movement, described in this work as Global Critical Solidarity, provides a framework for further investigation of human rights movements based in local contexts that are (re)made in digital spaces to reach global audiences, in turn developing a deep sense of kinship that has critical implications for the understanding of shared humanity through diversity.
Comparative Higher Education Research Methods: Thematic analysis
(Indiana University, 2020-01-20) Rouf, Kazi Abdur
The paper narrates different definitions of comparative education, identifies problems and barriers in comparative education studies. How comparative education finds and uses sameness (contrast) as universalism and difference as ultra-relativism in different national educational policy context. The paper deeply sees how comparative education policies are use, link and apply by comparativists’ to different social theories like modernization theory, conflict theory, structural-functionalism, positivism, relativism, historical and cultural studies, statistical methods (unit of analysis), realism, and post-structuralism, neo-liberalism, capitalism, localism, globalization, and govermentalism, etc. Then compare the comparative educational research findings of the issues, and results in different cultural contexts by using different research methods narrated by different comparative education scholars that can help change, modify or improve the comparative education research implementing model. The cross-cultural comparative education research benefits, shares and measures different education system or evaluate different education schemes. At the end, the paper explores how higher education financial aid policy can play a critical role in addressing persisting poverty and dependence in developed country.
Educational policy, policy appropriation and Grameen Bank higher education financial aid policy process
(Indiana University, 2020-01-01) Rouf, Kazi Abdur
The paper talks about higher educational polices and their process of policy appropriations, policy as practices, policy as symbolic, policy as rituals, policy as myths, policy backward- mapping and policy-forward mapping, multi-stage policy implementation process, street-bureaucrats planners, and policy reform process. It critically looks at pros-and-corns of different educational policy theories and their applications in education, and the higher education student financial aid different policies, strategies and products and their impact on the college students. The paper also narrates the higher educational policies and methods of need-based, merit-based, means-test-based grants allocation and loan disbursement and their impact on student academic achievements. Moreover, it discusses the policy process model that has both agendas and multiple streams that consider looking at policy designing problems, solutions of the problems and their usefulness to SES students. Additionally, the paper narrates the Grameen Bank higher education student loan policy making process, although there is no higher education student financial aid services are not exist in Bangladesh. Literature reviews, conversations with higher education students, contextual analysis, and the author personal working experience incorporate here. The study finds for policy improvement, policy analysis is vital because policy analysis can explores usefulness of the policy for public well being and for effectiveness of the policy appropriation.
Against all odds: socio-economic and political factors related to female labor force participation and decision making power in Bangladesh
(Indiana University, 2019-12-20) Rouf, Kazi Abdur
Gender inequality and discrimination is persistent in different socio-economic and political institutions. Women are mainly treated as second sex, sex objects, reproductive agent and their economic contributions to the family, market and state are largely ignored. These discriminations are transferred through the institution of patriarchy, labor force participation and different national and international programs and policy processes. The rigidity and confinement of women within households is experiencing minimal change. A majority of women continue to experience inequalities in different sectors of the society; both in developed and developing countries. However, in terms of gender inequality, female labor force participation is a major factor. This paper reviewed feminist literatures and author personal experiences working with women particularly marginalized women in many countries. The paper examines the interrelating issues of female labor force participation, patriarchy, differential household structures and development policies as they exist in Bangladesh.
Islamic Sharia based group micro-lending initiative and implementation trajectory experience in Kandahar during Taliban regime
(2019-12-19) Rouf, Kazi Abdur
Although some people think the concept Sharia Law Islamic Banking system is ancient (old), modernized Islamic Banking has been introduced and operational for many decades in the world now. Countries like Bangladesh, Malaysia, UK, Singapore, Pakistan and Bahrain competitively run their Islamic banking side by side with modern commercial banks who are successful in their banking operations with financial sustainability. However, Islamic Sharia micro-financing servicers are rare and new in the Muslim world although it is urgent and it can be done easily to make poor economic actors in the society and to address the issue of poverty. The Islamic Sharia Law group micro-lending initiative and implementation in Kandahar, Afghanistan during Taliban Regime in 1996-1997 was one of the innovation launched by the author funded and supported by UHCR- Grameen Bank-Grameen Trust to revive and to make business entrepreneurs and economic actors instead provide aid relief to poor and to returnees’ repatriation rehabilitation. The project received approval from the Shura of Afghan Taliban Authority. The project got popularity as in the project area as it was ran by the Sharia based micro credit services that followed the Murabaha (loss and profit sharing investment) and Mudarabah (provide business materials in kinds instead cash to entrepreneurs) system in providing micro-credit to acute disadvantaged people; however, the project experienced that the unstable political and economic situation hinders to project operation, management and development. Islamic rational ethical values, norms and principles knowledgeable to elites and the support from local authority are crucial for implementing the Sharia micro-financing programs for eradicating poverty in any nation state especially in Muslim states.
Grameen Bank higher education student loan policies and strategies in Bangladesh
(2019-12-01) Rouf, Kazi Abdur
Grameen Bank disburses the higher education student loans and scholarships to its borrowers’ children. The GB higher education student loan can receive by a borrower for all of his children who are studying higher education in Bangladesh. Grameen Bank scholarships are awarding to Primary, Middle, High School, and Grade-12 college students in Bangladesh who have outstanding results (GPA 5.0) in their Grade-5, Grade-8, Secondary School Certificate (Grade-10) and Higher School Certificate exam (Grade 12). Grameen Shikka (Education), a sister organization of GB, also offering scholarships to the children of the borrowers of GB. More than 55,000 children are receiving awards from Grameen Bank and Grameen Shilkka in Bangladesh every year. The student loan receiving borrowers start their student loan repayment after one month of their last student loan receiving installment. The service charge 5% of the student loan starts from the day when the students finish their studies. A GB borrower can receive this GB higher education student loan only for his biological children, not for adopted children. The loan receiving borrower and his children must have a Bangladeshi citizenship nationality certificate. Recently, GB squeezes its operation even though the higher education student loan program has a huge demand in Bangladesh.
Study findings of the Grameen Bank higher education student loan services in Bangladesh
(2019-11-22) Abdur Rouf, Kazi
A survey conducted on the Grameen Bank higher education student loan services in Bangladesh in 2015-2016. The survey sample size is only 61, and the paper narrates the survey findings. The purpose of the survey is to know the GB higher education student loan portfolios, the status of the student loan repayment rate, and the role of the student loan users in community development in Bangladesh. The study finds the student loan program of GB is accessible and useful to the children of GB borrowers for their higher education study in Bangladesh. The student loan receiving children of borrowers of GB is ornamental to engage in different community organizations and civic activity participation in their neighborhoods. However, GB needs to massively expand this program and improve its higher education student loan collection and monitoring strategies in Bangladesh.
International Student Academic Support: A comparison of the motivations of a Chinese international student and his instructor
(TESOL Arabia, 2017) Stewart, JesAlana
The foremost resource in helping non-native students to navigate western academia is the teacher. Therefore, this study attends to the expectations of an English composition teacher and his Chinese international student through a comparative analysis of their perspectives and strategies. This research finds many commonalities of expectations between the two, and a few dissimilarities, which affect motivation. Additionally, it discovers coping strategies used by the student to meet teacher expectations and strategies used by the instructor to help the student meet expectations. Finally, this study calls for more research into the available resources for internationals, and more training for teachers.
Review of A Sociolinguistic Diaspora: Latino Practices, Identities, and Ideologies
(Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, 2017-07-14) Stewart, JesAlana
A Sociolinguistic Diaspora: Latino Practices, Identities, and Ideologies, edited by Rosina Márquez Reiter and Luisa Martín Rojo, discusses the dynamic interplay of linguistic and sociocultural phenomenon of Latino diasporas in established, emergent, and virtual communities around the globe. This text specifies various ever-evolving individual/group Latino identities and the struggle to distinguish from and/or associate with either differing Spanish-speaking groups or the linguistic majority of a host country.
Blending Spaces: Mediating and Assessing Intercultural Competence in the L2 Classroom
(The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language, 2015-11) Stewart, JesAlana
With the vast amount of second language learners across the world in various contexts and the ever-‐present force of globalization, it becomes essential to acknowledge the interaction of differing sociocultural and linguistic practices at play in second language (L2) learning. In doing so, a learner of a new linguistic code can gradually come to use both their first and second languages appropriately through the medium of a third space between each system. Witte discusses the unique situation of L2 learners when faced with a new, possibly competing linguistic system and culture, in such a way that would benefit both educators and researchers alike. He explains the challenges that a foreign language learner faces in having two competing rhetorical traditions, and he explains the interactions of these languages in a third space where reconciliation takes place in new and interesting forms. This book meticulously and gradually builds on both first and second language development in order to construct the understanding of what intercultural competence could mean.
Grameen Krishi Foundation (GKF) and its donor’s contribution to Deep Tube-well irrigation-based rural agricultural community development in Northern Bangladesh
(2019-10-30) Rouf, Kazi Abdur
The paper is exploring the relationship among the key stakeholders’ roles Grameen Krishi Foundation, and its funding donor United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the roles of Government of Bangladesh and their impact to Northern Deep Tube-well (DTW) irrigation farmers crop production and community development in Bangladesh in 1991-1998. Grameen Krishi Foundation (GKF) Bangladesh-involves in agricultural irrigation farming, crop production, and crop marketing in Bangladesh. The author works with them as a coordinator in Dhaka that he narrates here his working experience. As of experience, the author finds instead of fully follow the TOR of the pre-inception of the project document, it is important the international donor funding agencies and other related stakeholders of the project should hear the implementing agency’s interaction experience with the community members and understand their interaction experiences; then design and develop post-inception project improvement strategies for the benefit of the community people and overall outcome of the project.
Canadian higher education student financial aid policies, products and services in Canada
(2019-09-10) Rouf, Kazi Abdur
Although Canada is a welfare state and it has need-based priority student financial aid support policies in Canada; however, its higher education financial aid service is not universal. Rather its higher education support services have neoliberal policy matrix (public grants and private loan) financial aid services began to take root in most Canadian provinces. Although since 1964, the Canadian financial aid program has provided over $51 billion in Canada Student Loans to more than 5 million Canadians to help them finance their education and equip them to achieve their career aspirations. The average Canadian student debt is $27,000, up from $8,000 in 1990. The Government of Canada changes many of its higher education financial assistance policies, programs, and products; however, the ratios of the grants: loans are still questionable to many students, researchers, and laymen. Therefore, the federal, provincial and institutional grants need of the increased so that grants portion can be higher than 80% than the loan portion.
American Higher Education Student Financial Aid
(2019-08-16) Rouf, Kazi Abdur
The American higher education student financial aid program is an American national social financing program that has both grants and loans components from the public and the private financial institutions as a social investment for the American college students for their higher education human resource capital development. Although America provides higher education student grants yearly more than $250 billion; its student debts are accumulating more than $1.5 trillion in 2007-2008. Even now the student debts are more increasing. Therefore, it is important to know what the American higher education student financial aid acts, policies and strategies are at the federal, states and institutional levels; how the private student loan agencies are working; why the student debts are increasing; and what are the issues related to the student financial aid services in America. The federal, states and institutional financial grants and their policies are continuously changing but they are legislated the by congress and states legislators. The US Department of Education and many other agencies are monitoring and reviewing the student financial aid policies and budgets. The higher education student financial aid’s budgets and policies are altering to comply with the college students need and the colleges demand. Despite the American student financial aid system is decentralized; however, its policy appropriations need to be democratized.
Social economy community outreach education
(2019-07-13) Abdur Rouf, Kazi
The social economy is trying to address the issues of social and economic disparity and to find alternative socio-economic solutions for poverty eradication and to facilitate community outreach public well-being. Currently, the social economy (SE) courses are teaching in many universities, colleges, and develop social enterprise different initiatives. Moreover, social economy researchers present their research findings at different seminars, conferences, symposiums; many books and journals are published on the social economy; however, very few initiatives have taken to educating the end users of community outreach the social entrepreneur. Hence, the paper focuses to discern how social economy (SE) concept, its different initiatives, operational strategies, and policies can be reached to community outreach people in order to orient them about these phenomena. The paper contains the definition of SE, the importance of SE, and issues in SE with examples, how social economy community outreach learning can be facilitated to inform readers. The paper is written based on literature reviews, the author’s personal experience, and secondary data. The paper finds SE ideas are traveling within academicians, researchers, social economy study students, and social economy practitioners. Therefore, the social economy community outreach education is very important to educate community outreach people to develop their understanding of the social economy, their benefit, to know how social enterprises can be initiated and managed by the community outreach people and prospective community social entrepreneurs.

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