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Meghan Comstock; Adam K. Edgerton; Laura M. Desimone – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: Instructional policy aims to shift the nature of teaching and learning. Decades of policy studies have highlighted the challenges inherent in these aims and the conditions necessary to support such change, including a robust infrastructure to support teacher learning. Further, teachers themselves must perceive and experience…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Practices, State Policy, Educational Change
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Johnson, Odis, Jr. – Teachers College Record, 2021
Context: The rich contextualization of educational processes brought about in the pioneering work of Jean Anyon pushed scientists to acknowledge that the education being provided to the least advantaged was shaped by factors with origins beyond school and family environments. Political economic work in education has subsequently argued that an…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Macroeconomics, Equal Education, Educational Change
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Ellis, Jason; Axelrod, Paul – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: It is frequently assumed that changes in special education policies since 1945 have come mostly from "landmark research" or actions of a few "pioneers." We argue in this article that there have been many different sources of change, including legislation, court rulings, activism, and even shifts in socially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Kimball, Bruce A.; Johnson, Benjamin Ashby – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: Endowments of institutions of higher education in the United States have attracted widespread attention in recent decades due to their meteoric rise in value and their precipitous decline during the recent recession. But there has been little research on the beginnings of the significant interest in and importance of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Endowment Funds, Educational History, School Funds
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Kim, Dongbin; Rury, John L. – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: American higher education witnessed rapid expansion during the period between 1960 and 1980, as colleges and universities welcomed millions of new students. During the period, the proportion of 19- and 20-year-old students living in dormitories, rooming houses, or other group quarters fell from more than 40% to slightly less…
Descriptors: Commuting Students, Higher Education, College Students, College Attendance
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Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: At the close of the first decade of the 21st century, the intersection of race, geography and opportunity is increasingly referred to as spatial racism. School quality and resources, municipal services, employment opportunities, accessibility of transportation, exposure to pollution, and tax rates all vary dramatically across a…
Descriptors: School Policy, School Desegregation, Urban Schools, Housing