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Bali, Valentina A. – Educational Policy, 2016
The ratings given by citizens to local public schools in the United States have been rising in the last decades. Using national public opinion surveys, this study seeks to understand the determinants of public evaluations of local schools across time. Aggregate trend analyses indicate that public evaluations of local schools are influenced not…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Educational Quality, Trend Analysis, Public Schools
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Sloan, Kris – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
This study analyzes and describes the links between the curriculum policies of one urban school district in the US and an intervention by the economics firm Standard & Poor's (S&P). It characterizes the languages and values introduced to the district leadership by S&P as ideologically neoliberal. This school-level case study that makes…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Educational Policy, Accountability, School Business Relationship
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Resnik, Julia – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2007
The structural reforms of the education system in France (1959, 1963, and 1975) were part both of a global process of democratisation of education launched after the Second World War and of a larger modernisation project in which knowledge producers (experts, scholars and consultants) played a crucial role. Instead of a national approach or a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Problems, War, Global Education