NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Idit Fast – Educational Policy, 2025
Today's school integration policies in the United States are often "race neutral." Scholarship on these race-neutral school integration policies finds they do not change the racial and ethnic composition of schools or do so under very specific conditions. Yet, we know relatively little about the mechanisms explaining these outcomes.…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Racial Integration, School Policy, Program Implementation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ayscue, Jennifer B.; D. Fusarelli, Lance; Uzzell, Elizabeth M. – Educational Policy, 2023
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) reverses a trend toward centralization of education policy and instead provides greater authority to the states. This study explores states' interpretation and early implementation of ESSA's equity-related provisions. Using a qualitative case study approach, we find wide variation in the design and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sylvan, Lesley – Educational Policy, 2018
This research contrasts two urban school districts that serve similar populations yet vary notably with respect to the provision of speech and language services. The results suggest that variation in the provision of speech-language services is driven by district-level variations in budgetary and legal contexts as well as procedural differences.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Urban Population, Language Impairments
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Printy, Susan M.; Williams, Sean M. – Educational Policy, 2015
The reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 spurred sweeping changes for how special education students are identified in the United States. IDEA 2004 encourages schools to use Response to Intervention (RTI) as a new method for identifying special education students. As schools implement RTI, the principal…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Response to Intervention, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chase, Megan M. – Educational Policy, 2016
Understanding how educational practitioners make sense of and subsequently implement policy has been an increasingly important objective of the K-12 research community. This study extends this research into higher education via an in-depth case study of an urban public 2-year technical college. Drawing on sensemaking theory and critical policy…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Transfer Policy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Adams, Jacob E., Jr. – Educational Policy, 1994
Suggests some consequences of program equity for educational policy and practice. Stakes go up because program equity demands support for high minimum performance outcomes and coordination of implementation decisions and actions across a fragmented education system. Teacher networks are one way to link top-down and bottom-up change strategies…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Policy