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Huang, Zhongjing; Chen, HuanChun – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
The major aim of recent school education reform in China is to improve educational equity and quality. This paper aims to explore a collaborative reform in a school district in Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province. The major focus of the reform has been a change of school management from "government" to "governance," which is a shift…
Descriptors: Governance, Government School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
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Coldron, John; Crawford, Megan; Jones, Steve; Simkins, Tim – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
Research to date about the English government's policy to make schools independent of local authorities (LAs) has looked at the "macro" level of national policy and at the "micro" level of the institution. The study of which this article is a part, explores changes at the "meso" level--the locality. The article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Public Policy, Educational Policy
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Pedroni, Thomas C. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
Although Detroit is not a centre of global finance, and plays a declining role in global production, it nevertheless participates in the present remediation of the relationship between cities and the globe. Manoeuvring to reposition the city as the global hub of mobility technology, metropolitan Detroit's neoliberal leadership advances particular…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Municipalities, Political Attitudes, Economic Development