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Tandberg, David A., Ed.; Sponsler, Brian A., Ed.; Hanna, Randall W., Ed.; Guilbeau, Jason P., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2018
While issues of higher education access, opportunity, and impact are hotly debated on the floors of Congress and in state legislatures, it is the state's higher education executive officer (SHEEO) who is expected to be an innovative policymaker, an astute political actor, an all-seeing fortune-teller, and a rapid problem-solver. These…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Policy, Educational Policy, State Boards of Education
Millei, Zsuzsa, Ed.; Griffiths, Tom G., Ed.; Parkes, Robert John, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2010
For over a century, teachers, parents, and school leaders have lamented a loss of "discipline" in classrooms. Caught between guidance approaches on the one hand and a call for zero tolerance on the other, current debates rarely venture beyond the terrain of implementation strategies. This book aims to reinvigorate thinking on "discipline" in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discipline, Zero Tolerance Policy, Administrators
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Cohen-Vogel, Lora; Ingle, William Kyle; Levine, Amy Albee; Spence, Matthew – Educational Policy, 2008
Many political scientists maintain that public policies diffuse across states and that proximate states, in particular, influence one another's policy activities. Using state-funded merit aid for college as its case, this article takes a new approach to the study of the diffusion phenomenon, leaving behind conventional techniques used by…
Descriptors: Political Science, Educational Innovation, Student Financial Aid, Scientists
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Ferlie, Ewan; Musselin, Christine; Andresani, Gianluca – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2008
This article focuses on the steering of higher education systems in the light of political science and public management approaches. It first recalls that an important part of the existing literature on higher education is focused on public policies in terms of reforms and decision-making, while the other part is dedicated to discovering and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Political Science, Research Methodology, Public Administration