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Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2023
"Fostering Youth Transitions 2023: State and National Data to Drive Foster Care Advocacy" is a unique compilation of data designed to inform federal and state policy efforts aimed at making a difference for young people in foster care. This overview brief and detailed profiles of the latest available data from all 50 states, along with…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Advocacy, Youth, State Policy
Michael Fullan – Teachers College Press, 2025
The sixth edition of The New Meaning of Educational Change is unlike any of its predecessors. Michael Fullan first provides a deeply critical account of the last 60 years of educational change across the world with a focus on the United States. He then presents a radically different future based on learnings from the past and innovative examples…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Influence of Technology, School Restructuring
Marshall, Catherine; Gerstl-Pepin, Cynthia; Johnson, Mark – Teachers College Press, 2020
Employing a social justice framework, this book provides educational leaders and practitioners with tools and strategies for grappling with the political fray of education politics. The framework offers ways to critique, challenge, and alter social, cultural, and political patterns in organizations and systems that perpetuate inequities. The…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Politics of Education, Governance, Policy Formation
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Learning Professional, 2017
Teacher expertise and insights are valuable resources untapped by most districts and states. That's why as new federal education laws with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) begin to be implemented, teachers need to seek and create opportunities to use their teacher agency in advocating for relevant and effective professional learning. And as…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Teacher Participation, Participative Decision Making, Policy Formation
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Hogan, Pádraig – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2015
A Special Issue of the "Journal of Philosophy of Education" in November 2012 explored key aspects of the relationship between philosophy of education and educational policy in the UK. The contributions were generally critical of policy developments in recent decades, highlighting important shortcomings and arguing for more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Katz, Adrienne – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016
The internet and mobile devices play a huge role in teenagers' home and school life, and it is becoming more and more important to effectively address e-safety in secondary schools. This practical book provides guidance on how to teach and promote e-safety and tackle cyberbullying with real-life examples from schools of what works and what schools…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Child Safety, Internet, Bullying
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Shakman, Karen; Rodriguez, Sheila M. – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2015
The Logic Model Workshop Toolkit is designed to help practitioners learn the purpose of logic models, the different elements of a logic model, and the appropriate steps for developing and using a logic model for program evaluation. Topics covered in the sessions include an overview of logic models, the elements of a logic model, an introduction to…
Descriptors: Models, Logical Thinking, Workshops, Program Design
Furlong, Michael J., Ed.; Gilman, Richard, Ed.; Huebner, Scott, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014
Understanding the factors that encourage young people to become active agents in their own learning is critical. Positive psychology is one lens that can be used to investigate the factors that facilitate a student's sense of agency and active school engagement. In the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook, the editors draw together the…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, School Psychology, Individual Characteristics, Academic Achievement
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Mariano, Jenni Menon – New Directions for Youth Development, 2011
Initially drawing from, yet then expanding on the research discussed in this volume, this article discusses specific measures that practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can take to support purpose among youth. Strategies for educators include utilizing practical purpose teaching tools, such as purpose interviews, purpose-related…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Change Strategies, Achievement Need, Goal Orientation
Tedder, Michael; Jones, Paula; Mauger, Simon – Adults Learning, 2008
The importance of the "learner voice" is again a concern throughout the learning and skills sector, and turning the rhetoric into some kind of meaningful reality has become a renewed challenge. The concern to be responsive to "learner and learning experience" can be seen across developments in information, advice and guidance…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Learning Experience
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Tucker, Ben R. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1987
Explains the functions and concerns of the Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy at the Library of Congress and describes the documentation produced by the office, especially that dealing with cataloging rules interpretation. (CLB)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Documentation, National Libraries, Policy Formation
Bowen, Christopher – Illinois Libraries, 1988
This description of the development of a discipline policy at the Downers Grove (Illinois) Public Library recounts discipline problems, the process of creating the policy, and its effects. The text of the rules of behavior and a sample page from the procedures manual, which provides practical guidelines for enforcement, are included. (MES)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discipline Policy, Discipline Problems, Policy Formation
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Rafter, David O. – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1984
Three common evaluation models are the scientific, interactive, and hybrid. A study of evaluation projects mandated by the Wisconsin legislature revealed that the hybrid model was most effective in achieving policy planning and policy control utilization, the interactive approach provided aid to individual utilization, and the scientific approach…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Models, Planning
Stufflebeam, Daniel L. – 1987
Although organized physical education is vital to Americans' health and well-being, surprisingly few policy studies exist for the field. Physical education professionals desperately need evaluation studies to assist them in setting policies and examining policy implementation and outcomes. This paper reviews available literature, identifies…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Methods Research, Physical Education
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Steneck, Nicholas H. – Science, Technology, and Human Values, 1984
Examines issues and problems related to the establishment of formal policies for research ethics at universities, considering prevention versus policing, fraud, and peer review. Includes excerpts from a University of Michigan report titled "Maintaining the Integrity of Scholarship" and actions being taken as a result of the report. (JN)
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation, Policy Formation
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