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Laura A. Schifter; Jonathan Klein, Contributor – Harvard Education Press, 2025
Laura A. Schifter and Jonathan Klein highlight the many ways in which K-12 schools and students have tremendous potential to advance solutions on environmental issues, and they provide frameworks for enacting change, in "Students, Schools, and Our Climate Moment." Schifter and Klein demonstrate how the effects of climate change intersect…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Climate, Environmental Education
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James C. Coviello – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2025
Those tasked with leading large school districts direct incredibly complex organizations in what are often contentious political and social contexts, with powerful stakeholder groups espousing conflicting policy priorities. Because of their high-profile positions, superintendents often face uniquely persistent and powerful resistance and must…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Superintendents, Equal Education, Elementary Secondary Education
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2023
This guide is designed for use by school, district, and state education agency staff to improve the effectiveness of efforts to collect and use discipline data, including reporting accurate and timely data to the federal government. It explains the importance of collecting discipline data, identifies key considerations for agencies implementing…
Descriptors: Discipline, Data Collection, Data Analysis, School Districts
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Faubert, Brenton; Pollock, Katina; Hauseman, Cameron – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2019
In this case narrative, senior superintendents reckon with the challenges of implementing a revised strategic policy for student discipline in an intensified work environment. Challenges include: (a) providing professional learning to familiarize leaders and educators with regulatory requirements; (b) a problematic trend of school and district…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Discipline, Discipline Policy, School Policy
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Hudler, Keara; Dennis, Lilly; DiNella, Muriel; Ford, Nataley; Mendez, Joanna; Long, Joshua – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2021
In recent decades, universities have made significant progress toward environmental sustainability and have likewise tightened their budgets and restructured economic models in the name of financial sustainability. However, institutions of higher education have failed to address issues of social sustainability and social injustice, many of which…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Justice, Universities, College Students
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Kelchen, Robert; Rosinger, Kelly Ochs; Ortagus, Justin C. – AERA Open, 2019
As state governments seek to improve the performance of institutions of K-12 and higher education, they often adopt educational policies that have similar names but different characteristics across states and with variations over time within states. Yet quantitative analyses generally examine the absence or presence of an educational policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Educational Finance, Data Analysis
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Hands, Catherine; Freckelton, Kevin – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2019
The case describes an experienced principal's arrival at a new school, his observations of the school and its teachers, and his experiences as he attempts to ensure all students have access to education, particularly those requiring accommodations or assistive technology. The culture of the school is compartmentalized; early- and mid- to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Inclusion, Educational Policy, Principals
Zapata, Marisa; Percy, Stephen; Andrews, Sona – Metropolitan Universities, 2018
Propelled by many factors, including a newly appointed Board of Trustees responsible for governance of our university, resource shortages, and enrollment swings, Portland State University embarked on a strategic planning effort in 2014 with the intent of reunifying a divided campus and creating a bold vision for moving forward in the next five…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Equal Education, Case Studies, State Universities
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Shores, Kenneth; Loeb, Susanna – Theory and Research in Education, 2016
Educators, policymakers, and citizens face questions of how to allocate scarce resources in the pursuit of competing goals for children and youth. Our goal in this article is to provide decision-makers with a framework for considering allocative problems in education, explicitly highlighting the implications of relevant feasibility constraints. We…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Resources, Decision Making, Community Involvement
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Pellegrino, Jeffrey Louis; Snyder, Charity; Crutchfield, Nikki; Curtis, Cesquinn M.; Pringle, Eboni – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2015
To engage students and meet institutional goals, higher education leaders need to leverage the institutional knowledge of their staff and their professional competencies. Evidence based decision-making provides a stepping-stone to strategic staffing practices. Strategically developing and retaining staff members moves the conversation from…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Meta Analysis, Case Studies, Empowerment
Manna, Paul; Moffitt, Susan – Wallace Foundation, 2014
This executive summary describes a Wallace-commissioned report that identifies the emergence of a new kind of education advocacy organization in the United States. The report also assesses how these groups influence education policy, provides an overview of their work across the country, and offers a case study of one, Advance Illinois. The report…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Educational Policy, Nonprofit Organizations, Case Studies
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Chong, Pei Wen; Graham, Linda J. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2013
International comparison is complicated by the use of different terms, classification methods, policy frameworks and system structures, not to mention different languages and terminology. Multi-case studies can assist in the understanding of the influence wielded by cultural, social, economic, historical and political forces upon educational…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Educational Research
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Hampton, Greg – Higher Education Review, 2013
A rapprochement between managerialism and collegialism has become commonplace within policy discussion on governance within higher education. Processes of deliberation within university governance are suggested as one means of fostering this apparent accord. I suggest that Dryzek's notion of meta-consensus can assist processes of deliberative…
Descriptors: Governance, Group Unity, Higher Education, Discourse Analysis
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Synnott, Michael – Teaching Public Administration, 2013
This paper focuses on the potential role of reflection and double loop learning in policy analysis and shared community learning. The discussion is illustrated by the case of HS2, a proposed high-speed railway project in England. It is noted that the foundation of social learning models is a rejection of traditional reliance on technologies or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration Education, Reflection, Transformative Learning
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Smith, Caroline Altman; Baldwin, Christopher; Schmidt, Gretchen – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2015
Ten years ago, community college presidents' most valued datum was the number of students enrolled, which drove the colleges' funding. Providing access to higher education for the millions of students without the time, money, or academic preparation to attend a traditional four-year college was (as it always had been) their top priority. Today, a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Community Colleges, College Preparation
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