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A Critique of "The Common Core Is a Change for the Better"
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Wolfe, Adam – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2015
In their article, "The Common Core is a Change for the Better," Gardner and Powell (2013) make an argument in support of implementing the Common Core to improve teaching and student learning. They opine the Common Core will enable students to become more college and career ready and state the Common Core standards will provide…
Descriptors: State Standards, Evidence, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
From Voluntary Participation to Monitored Coordination: Why European Countries Feel Increasingly Bound by Their Commitment to the Bologna Process
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Ravinet, Pauline – European Journal of Education, 2008
Beginning in the year 2000, higher education policies all over Europe were transformed by the launching and evolution of the Bologna Process, otherwise known as the process of creating a European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Initially, this process was flexible and informal, which makes the rapidity and scope of the changes it brought about…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, International Organizations
The Relationship of the Decline in Welfare Cases to the New Welfare Law. How Will We Know If It Is Working? Rockefeller Reports.
Gais, Thomas L.; Boyd, Donald J.; Davis, Elizabeth L. – 1997
The number of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) cases has fallen in the past 4 years, and there is disagreement over the cause. Credit has been given to "waiver" programs that resembled Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and to the growing economy. This sort of confusion over program effects is partly a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demography, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
Discussion of Policies for Achieving Continuous Improvement in Community Colleges. Commission on Innovation Policy Discussion Paper Number 1.
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BW Associates, Berkeley, CA. – 1992
Intended to provide background information and preliminary options for the California Community Colleges' Commission on Innovation, this document describes the principles of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and describes policy options for implementation in the state's community colleges. Following introductory materials, the paper recommends…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment
Standards-Based Reform and Small Schools of Choice: How Reform Theories Converge in Three Urban Middle Schools. A Research Report. Document R-03-2
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Gallucci, Chrysan; Knapp, Michael S.; Markholt, Anneke; Ort, Suzy – Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, 2003
The convergence of two apparently opposite theories of urban educational reform is analyzed as it occurs in three middle schools in a New York City school district. The first theory, emphasizing small schools of choice, promotes close relationships between students and adults in distinctive school programs. The second--centralized, standards-based…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Instructional Improvement, Educational Change
Recommendations To Increase Opportunities for Women and Minorities within the North Carolina Community College System. Task Force Report to the State Board of Community Colleges.
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North Carolina Community Coll. System, Raleigh. – 1992
In 1992, the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges adopted a new policy to demonstrate its commitment to include women and minorities in administrative roles. A task force was formed to make recommendations, outlined in this document, for implementing the new policy within the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS). Included in…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrators, Advisory Committees, Community Colleges