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Direct linkHeafner, Tina L.; Fitchett, Paul G. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2012
By means of data from the most comprehensive source of teacher data in the nation, Schools and Public School Teacher Staffing Survey (SASS), we designed a follow-up quantitative study to test the effects of two decades of national policy mandates on instructional time allotments for core academic subjects. We used data from the SASS data from…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Evidence, Testing, Elementary Schools
McCombs, Jennifer Sloan, Ed.; Kirby, Sheila Nataraj, Ed.; Mariano, Louis T., Ed. – RAND Corporation, 2009
Many states and school districts are implementing test-based requirements for promotion at key transitional points in students' schooling careers, thus ending the practice of "social promotion"--promoting students who have failed to meet academic standards and requirements for that grade. In 2003-2004, the New York City Department of…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Intervention, Grade Repetition, Social Promotion
Download full textSomerset, Anthony – Online Submission, 2007
Kenya has introduced policies to promote universal primary schooling at least three times since independence. Analysis of enrolments over four decades shows how these initiatives have resulted in gains in participation which have not always been sustained. This study illuminates the dynamics of efforts to increase access to education and acts as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Elementary Education, Educational Policy
