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Download full textCarlson, Deven – American Enterprise Institute, 2019
Throughout much of the past quarter century, standards, testing, and accountability have composed the North Star of education reform. But over that time, the string of reform initiatives that failed to live up to their initial promise has effectively extinguished that guiding light. Now focus has turned to social and emotional learning (SEL). In a…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Direct linkStrutt, Courtney; Kepe, Thembela – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
With the onset of the Education for All (EFA) agenda in 1990, the international development community has seen new forms of international cooperation forming around the pledge for EFA. This paper analyzes a case study of activities and challenges of a civil society coalition, the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), in pursuing the…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Local Issues
Meyer, Robert H.; Christian, Michael S. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
One of the central challenges of designing and implementing a performance pay program is developing an approach for determining which schools, teachers, and administrators have performed well enough to have earned a bonus. The U.S. Department of Education's Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) program provides grantees substantial latitude to create…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Incentives, Merit Pay, Program Design
Cohen, Carolyn – 1995
This paper analyzes the potential of a specific public policy tool to further principles of programs devoted exclusively to the Integration of Education and Human Services (IEHS). Section 1 describes the nature of the problem in establishing the need for IEHS. Section 2 describes policy tools currently used to implement IEHS, introducing the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Programs
Howell, Robert E.; And Others – 1987
A model and supportive materials are presented for design and implementation of a program for involving citizens in decision-making concerning significant environmental issues. Chapter topics include: why citizen involvement? (potential benefits of the process); theoretical basis for citizen involvement (three fundamental perspectives underlying…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Decision Making
Corbett, H. Dickson; Wilson, Bruce L. – 1990
This paper summarizes the results of a study of the local consequences of implementing statewide minimum competency tests. For American education to be the best in the world, the use of statewide and nationwide standardized testing as a primary policy tool for stimulating reform must be discontinued. Second, school district responses to such…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests
