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Brady, Michael P.; Duffy, Mary Lou; Hazelkorn, Michael; Bucholz, Jessica L. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
Planning for policy implementation is as important as the implementation itself. A policy's intent can be subverted by the way the policy is implemented, or when unanticipated outcomes take precedence over the true intent. This article presents three cases of specific instances of unintended outcomes from policy implementation and presents a…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Program Implementation, Strategic Planning, Educational Policy
Brown, Brentt; Vargo, Merrill – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2014
California has embarked on a major new wave of curriculum reform with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the new English Language Development (ELD) standards, and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The adoption of the CCSS builds a legacy of standards-based education reform in California that began with the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Klau, Kenneth – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010
State educational accountability models are in transition. Whether modifying the present accountability system to comply with existing state and federal requirements or anticipating new ones--such as the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Race to the Top competition--recording the experiences of state education agencies (SEAs) that are currently…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Politics of Education, Accountability, Models
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LeBaron, John; McFadden, Anna – Interactive Learning Environments, 2008
This paper offers a case history of one university academic department's experience with the pressure to create online scholarship opportunities for professional educators. As tertiary education transforms its course delivery to Web-based learning management platforms, instructors are challenged to transform career-long practice suddenly and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, College Faculty, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
Justice, Thomas I. – 1988
This report analyzes and documents the ways that existing educational service systems have successfully modified their roles in order to improve school-to-adult-life transition services for students with disabilities. The report is based on findings from development of a model cooperative transition services system, which revealed that new roles…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agency Role, Change Strategies, Disabilities
Jones, Toni Griego – 1990
Three large urban school districts located in the Midwest, Southwest, and West Coast regions were involved in a study designed to reveal district personnel's perceptions of change within their school district. After describing the study, this document analyzes perceptions of change related to one district's new bilingual program that was…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Change Strategies, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change
Thornton, Shirley A.; Spiesberger, Bonnie – 1994
This manual is designed to assist California school personnel to respond to the increasing diversity in student populations, with a change process based on principles of shared leadership through a decentralized site-based management method. The organization change model utilized by the pilot schools is the California Local Education Reform…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1982
Intended to provide a comprehensive picture of the Appalachian Community Service Network (ACSN), this report documents its evolution from a federally funded regional educational experiment to a nonprofit corporation delivering educational and informational programming via commercial satellite to cable subscribers across the nation; ACSN's changing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cable Television, Communications Satellites, Continuing Education
Gardiner, Lion F. – 1988
Many colleges and universities are engaged in new efforts to assess the outcomes they produce. As a first step, these institutions usually examine their mission statement, goals, and objectives. These form the foundation for assessment but they are also fundamental tools for enhancing institutional effectiveness in general. This handbook was…
Descriptors: Accountability, Check Lists, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Objectives
Jakes, Harold E. – Ontario Education, 1984
In contrast to the problems and policies of school boards of the 1950's and 1960's, when school enrollments increased at an unprecedented rate, the problems of school boards in the 1970's became those of retrenchment. Responding to the issues of declining enrollments and fiscal restraints, the Ontario Ministry of Education in 1981 required every…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, Change Strategies, Criteria
Oblinger, Diana G., Ed.; Rush, Sean C., Ed. – 1998
This collection of 16 monographs centers around the theme the "future compatible campus," which is based on the premise that higher education will become a "connected campus" in a technology-enabled environment consisting of three components: connected learning, connected service to the community; and connected management. In…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Services, Computer Assisted Instruction