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Download full textBurch, Barbara; Evans, Sam; Lee, David – Educational Renaissance, 2013
As an institution built on the foundation of a Normal School, collaboration among faculty members and across program areas and academic units has been part of Western Kentucky University's (WKU) heritage since 1906. In addition to the various collaborative initiatives across campus, there are a variety of initiatives that involve various agencies…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Models, Teacher Collaboration, Educational Legislation
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1998
Before the educational reforms of the early 1990s, Kentucky was in the bottom 10% of the states on most indicators of educational quality. Educators and policymakers in Kentucky approached educational reform in a thoughtful and systematic way and developed a state law mandating an education system that now serves as a national model. The education…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Indicators
Stecher, Brian M.; Barron, Sheila; Borko, Hilda; Wolf, Shelby – 1997
This is the first report from a 5-year study of the classroom level effects of state assessment reforms. The first year examines changes in the teaching of writing and mathematics in Kentucky elementary and middle schools as a result of the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System and the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). This report…
Descriptors: Accountability, Classroom Techniques, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Peer reviewedHerman, Jerry J.; And Others – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1995
Focuses on a model of school-based management (SBM) and on generalities that can be drawn from recent research on SBM in several southern states. A case study of SBM in Kentucky, where the Kentucky Education Reform Act mandated SBM, illustrates issues in its implementation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedVan Meter, Eddy J. – NASSP Bulletin, 1994
In Kentucky, where school-based decision making is legally mandated for all public schools, appreciable policy and decision-making powers are vested in SBDM school councils. Since 1990, educators have learned some valuable lessons: reform policies need early implementation guidelines; decentralization mandates create control problems for state…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination
Peer reviewedSimmons, Ella Smith – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
Under the Kentucky Education Reform Act, Kentucky has redesigned curricular policies and instructional practices and has set in motion a process for restructuring teacher education by defining new standards for effective teaching and new requirements for certification. Guiding principles to prepare a teaching force able to implement school reform…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Criteria, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Kyle, Regina M. J. – 1995
The role of school-to-work transition in the broader context of K-12 systemic reform was examined by way of a case study of Jefferson County, Kentucky, before and after passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) in 1990. The systemic approaches toward school-to-work transition as part of educational reform that were developed and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Education Work Relationship
