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Amanda N. Nix; Tamara Bertrand Jones; Shouping Hu – Educational Policy, 2023
Florida Senate Bill 1720 drastically changed developmental education, beginning in fall 2014. This paper considers affected faculty members' perceptions and experiences with the passage and implementation of reform, according to focus group data provided by 294 participants at 21 Florida College System institutions between 2014 and 2019. We found…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Mokher, Christine G.; Jacobson, Louis – Educational Policy, 2021
This article explores challenges in starting, developing, and incorporating partnerships between the secondary and postsecondary education sectors. We use qualitative data from site visits at high schools, district offices, and state colleges across six Florida counties to identify the types of challenges educators faced in various phases of…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, High School Students
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Hall, William J.; Chapman, Mimi V. – Educational Policy, 2018
Bullying is a significant problem in U.S. schools. Policies have been developed to reduce bullying, yet policy implementation by educators is an essential yet difficult and complex process. Few studies have investigated factors that act as barriers to or facilitators of bullying policy implementation and teacher protection of students. This study…
Descriptors: School Policy, Bullying, Barriers, Program Implementation
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Hopkins, 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
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Barnett, Pamela; Gunersel, Adalet Baris – Educational Policy, 2014
In implementing a university-wide programmatic innovation to prepare graduate students to become more effective instructors in their future careers as university educators, a faculty development center encountered various types of resistance, ranging from the structural to the cognitive to the affective. Elaborating upon models of organizational…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Organizational Change, Teacher Education, Graduate Students
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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)
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Madaus, Joseph W.; Shaw, Stan F. – Educational Policy, 2008
There is a paucity of research related to the implementation of the procedural regulations of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 in public schools. Section 504 is a general education civil rights law designed to provide access for students with disabilities. This study presents data from a survey that was distributed to a range of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, General Education, Psychologists, School Psychologists
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Desimone, Laura M. – Educational Policy, 2006
This study extends previous work on survey validity and reliability by examining how different groups of respondents vary in their answers to survey questions about the policy system. The study uses state-representative data from a five-state study of standard-based reform in mathematics to test how predictive teacher, principal, and district…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Policy, School Surveys
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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)