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Lindsey J. Kaiser; David Goldenkranz; Heather K. Lechner; Patricia Burgess; Trish Millines Dziko – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2025
This study explores how White principals in the Seattle metropolitan area implemented an active anti-racist stance through school-based racial equity collaborations. Using participatory action research, the study follows three White principals in the Ally Engagement program, a community-based racial affinity leadership intervention, during the…
Descriptors: Whites, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Racial Attitudes
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Pak, Katie; McLaughlin, Jillian; Saldívar García, Erica; Desimone, Laura M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
The current context of standards-based reform has positioned regional service centers (RSCs), intermediary governmental agencies that support state policy implementation in local districts, as a critical source of professional development (PD). In this article, we ask how a governing body that districts often interact with during challenging…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Academic Standards, State Standards, Education Service Centers
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DeMatthews, David E.; Knight, David S. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
State accountability systems have been a primary school reform initiative in the US for the past 20 years, but often produce unintended negative consequences. In 2004, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) implemented the Performance Based Monitoring and Analysis System (PBMAS), which included an accountability indicator focused on the percentage of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Accountability, Eligibility, Program Implementation
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Pak, Katie; Desimone, Laura M.; Parsons, Arianna – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Though scholars agree that professional development (PD) is a key mechanism for implementing education policies that call for teacher change, and that PD generally needs to be content-focused, active, collaborative, coherent, and sustained, the application of this framework has yielded mixed results. In this qualitative study, we employed…
Descriptors: Professional Development, School Districts, Educational Policy, Academic Standards
DiCicco, Marzia Cozzolino – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
This article addresses the present gap in empirical research on the possibilities and challenges of global citizenship education in U.S. public schools by presenting findings from a five-year, ethnographic case study. The setting for this study is Olympus High School, a small, suburban public high school in Pennsylvania. Beginning in the 2009-2010…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Global Education, Global Approach, Accountability
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Matsummura, Lindsay Clare; Wang, Elaine – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
In the present exploratory qualitative study we examine the contextual factors that influenced the implementation of a multi-year comprehensive literacy-coaching program (Content-Focused Coaching, CFC). We argue that principals' sensemaking of the dialogic instructional strategies promoted by the program in light of high-stakes accountability…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Comprehension, Coaching (Performance)
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Mangin, Melinda M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
The United States has experienced tremendous growth in the development of coaching initiatives including professional training programs, state endorsements and resources for coaches. These developments bring attention to the potential for coaching to improve education. They also raise the question of how best to facilitate implementation in local…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Coaching (Performance), School Districts, Educational Planning
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Killeen, Kieran M.; Sipple, John W. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
As states have become more active in establishing curriculum content standards and related assessments disappointingly little attention has been paid to policy efforts that create learning opportunities for students to meet the new standards. This study examines one state policy designed to bolster the opportunity to learn by mandating additional…
Descriptors: Intervention, State Standards, Educational Opportunities, Alignment (Education)