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Direct linkHopkins, Megan – Educational Policy, 2016
Drawing on institutional theory, this study describes how cognitive, normative, and regulative mechanisms shape bilingual teachers' language policy implementation in both English-only and bilingual contexts. Aligned with prior educational language policy research, findings indicate the important role that teachers' beliefs play in the policy…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Program Implementation
Heineke, Amy J. – Educational Policy, 2015
Arizona language policy now requires English learners (ELs) to enroll in "English language development" (ELD) classrooms for 4 hr of skill-based, English-only instruction. In this article, I describe Arizona teachers' interpretation and negotiation of language policy and practice during this time of change to more restrictive mandates. I…
Descriptors: Language Planning, State Policy, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedNoble, Audrey J.; Smith, Mary Lee – Educational Policy, 1994
Recent incorporation of a performance assessment in Arizona's test mandate provides an opportunity to examine the assumptions and beliefs underlying measurement-driven reform. Efforts to meld cognitive-constructivist beliefs about pupil learning and assessment contradict behaviorist beliefs about changing teachers and reforming schools. Mandates…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions
Peer reviewedFirestone, William A.; And Others – Educational Policy, 1991
To increase understanding of the educational reform movement, the Center for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) embarked on a five-year study of the implementation and effects of state education reforms in six states (Arizona, California, Florida, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania) with diverse reform approaches. This article presents the center's…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Wright, Wayne E. – Educational Policy, 2005
Arizona's Proposition 203 places restrictions on bilingual and English-as-a-second-language programs and essentiality mandates English-only education for English language learners (ELLs). This article provides an analysis of this initiative and the wide variations in its interpretation and implementation. Data sources include official policy and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs
Combs, Mary Carol; Evans, Carol; Fletcher, Todd; Parra, Elena; Jimenez, Alicia – Educational Policy, 2005
In November 2000, Arizona voters passed Proposition 203, a law that replaced bilingual education with a 1-year program known as Structured English Immersion (SEI). Although SEI has little support in the educational or applied linguistics research literature, all English-language learners (ELLs) in Arizona are automatically placed in SEI…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, English (Second Language)
