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Ann Stewart; Nidhi S. Sabharwal; Renu Yadav – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
This article is concerned with an institutional initiative designed to encourage the development of an outreach culture which can support fairer, more equal, access to higher education (HE) in India. The initiative constituted the final impact phase of a 5-year Fair Chance Foundation (FCF) research project (2017-2022) which explored gendered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indians, Access to Education, Higher Education
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Alfred Kweku Ampah-Mensah; Rosemary Seiwah Bosu; Michael Amakyi; Wisdom Kwaku Agbevanu – Cogent Education, 2024
This paper reports on a study that explored the roles of district and community-based education structures (DCES) in preparing, implementing, and communicating education policy initiatives at the district and school levels. A descriptive multiple-case survey design involving three purposefully selected districts was employed. The study used a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Community Education, Administrative Organization
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Ertas, Nevbahar; McKnight, Andrew N. – Critical Questions in Education, 2020
Policy debates about charter schools are often dominated by polarizing emotional narratives. However scholarly attention on narratives in education policy, and especially narratives about charter schools in local contexts, has been limited. The recently developed Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) approach offers guidelines to systematically study…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Public Policy, News Media
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Shliakhovchuk, Elena – Educational Review, 2021
Globalisation has brought about change not only in the economic, social and technological order, but also in people's mentality and the ways they interact with the world around them. There has been a consensus that in our increasingly interconnected world, one of the essential tasks of educators and institutions at all levels is to develop,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Cultural Literacy, Cultural Awareness, Political Attitudes
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Casalaspi, David – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Recent decades have witnessed a proliferation of nationally organized school reform interest groups like StudentsFirst. While historically active at the state and federal levels, these organizations are increasingly involving themselves in local school board elections by recruiting candidates, making donations, and offering policy advice. However,…
Descriptors: Voting, Elections, Local Issues, Politics of Education
McDermott, Philip – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
In 1999, devolved governance was established in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland which altered the contours of language recognition in the United Kingdom. Whilst much focus has been placed on how devolution improved the status of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish, less attention has been placed on those minority vernaculars with 'contested'…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Governance, Language Minorities, Welsh
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Knoester, Matthew; Parkison, Paul – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
In this study, we examine how the standardizing effects of federal and state education policies in the United States reflect particular ways of understanding the structure and function of education and schooling. This understanding impacts how policies affect schools and those who work and depend upon them. We argue that the disparity between how…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Federal Regulation, Administrative Principles