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Cynthia A. Waldeck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this comparative case study was to understand the creation and implementation of the medical withdrawal policy and differences of the return from withdrawal policies in the University State System in the context of students with severe and persistent mental illness. This study focused on two specific institutions in the…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Withdrawal (Education), Mental Health, Comparative Analysis
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Sands, Sara R. – Educational Policy, 2023
The research on education philanthropy typically characterizes foundations as practicing either "traditional" or "strategic" philanthropy. These labels are used to indicate divergent ways of thinking about the impact of grants and approaches to grantmaking between the two models. Drawing on a theoretical framework informed by…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Systems Approach, Grants, Sociology
Phi Nguyen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
To achieve ambitious and equitable mathematics education, districts will likely have to extend their efforts beyond the bounds of classroom teaching and learning, and also address the social and political aspects involved in improving mathematics education. However, the literature has yet to explore the underlying boundaries that determine which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Policy, School Districts, Intellectual Disciplines
Woods, Emily Lubin – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2022
Drawing on rich case studies of Baltimore City and Boston, this volume identifies policy factors and processes critical to the successful district-wide adoption of community schools. By applying the Multiple Streams Model (Kingdon) to comparative analysis of policy determination and the narratives of local stakeholders across a 16-year period,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Policy, Urban Education, Educational Change
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Han, Shuangmiao; Mills, David – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
China has undergone unprecedented changes since the Reform and Opening-up policy in 1978. Policy experimentation (PE) has been key in generating and catalysing reforms in the process. This study proposes a conceptual framework to describe the different pathways of PE-enabled reforms. Comparing two empirically informed case studies, this study…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Development
Whitney Renee Weirick – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The primary goal of this study was to explore how educational interpreter supervisors defined, experienced and approached their work in K-12 schools in the United States of America. A secondary goal was to examine how they interpreted, navigated and enacted educational and interpreting policy in their jobs as supervisors. A comparative case study…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Accountability, Professionalism, Comparative Analysis
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Eisenschitz, Aram – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
The notion of the common good underlies much policy making in geography. There are two reasons for evaluating geography's impact on the common good for the university curriculum. First, by working within the various theoretical paradigms that have influenced policy, students will learn to argue from different perspectives such as social democracy…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Social Systems, Teaching Methods
Mouthaan, Melissa; Johnson, Martin; Greatorex, Jackie; Coleman, Tori; Fitzsimons, Sinéad – Research Matters, 2021
Inspired by the work of David Raffe and his co-authors who set out the positive benefits gained from comparing the policies of "the UK home nations" in an article published in 1999, researchers in the Education and Curriculum Team launched a project in early 2020 that we called Curriculum Watch. The aim of this project was to collate a…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Albert, Sasha M.; Gutman, Marjorie A.; Barker, Dianne C.; Nguyen, Samantha; Caughlan, Ian; Grob, George – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
This article presents an analytic approach to assessing the relationship between policy advocacy activities and outcomes for discrete episodes of advocacy, using a holistic array of factors that affect the relationship between advocacy and policy change. The factors pertain to not only advocacy organizational structure and strategies, but also the…
Descriptors: Policy Analysis, Advocacy, Case Studies, Correlation
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Keynes, Matilda; Marsden, Beth – History of Education Review, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways that history curriculum has worked to legitimise dispossession through narratives that elide questions of Indigenous sovereignty, and which construct and consolidate white settler identity and possession. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses two case studies to compare history…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Indigenous Populations
Dachet, Dylan; Baye, Ariane – ECNU Review of Education, 2021
Purpose: Taking the case of educational reform in French-speaking Belgium (the "Pact for Educational Excellence"), this article aims to describe the process of integrating evidence-based education (EBE) into an educational reform within a country where the influence of qualitative research is important. Design/Approach/Methods: A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, French, Educational Change
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Benson, Sarah K. – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2020
Research on the internationalization of inclusive policies for students with special needs is still developing alongside the shifting implementation of practice. This analysis seeks to understand the process of adopting inclusive policies in Jordan and the subsequent implementation through a modified comparative case study framework. Current…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion
Andre P. Stevenson – Geography Teacher, 2025
This paper examines the rationale and academic relevance of having undergraduate social work majors at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) compare and contrast social welfare and health policies between the US and Taiwan. By examining the differing policy frameworks of the two nations, students can gain a deeper understanding of diverse policy…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students, Global Education, Social Work
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Parcerisa, Lluís; Verger, Antoni; Pagès, Marcel; Browes, Natalie – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
In recent decades, the governance of educational systems has experienced dramatic changes in many countries. Schools have been given more autonomy whilst being held increasingly accountable at the central level through standardized testing and other forms of external evaluation. The mechanisms of performance-based accountability (PBA) and the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Professional Autonomy, Comparative Analysis, Performance Based Assessment
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Gleason, Kristen D.; Dube, Matthew; Martin, Jennifer; Bernier, Elizabeth; Gipson, Jessica – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2023
Stable housing is an important determinant of health equity (Swope & Hernández, 2019). Yet, there are few studies exploring housing insecurity in rural areas. In the current study, we examined the similarities and differences in housing insecure experiences across four rural areas in the state of Maine. We used a qualitative case study…
Descriptors: Housing, Rural Areas, Health, Case Studies
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