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Kurtz, Holly; Lloyd, Sterling; Harwin, Alex; Guo, Beilei – Editorial Projects in Education, 2022
Drawing upon the results of two nationally representative surveys, this report sums up 10 broad K-12 trends in 10 accompanying charts. The surveys were conducted as educators continued to grapple with the turmoil caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the debates that sometimes draw education policies into the culture wars surrounding social and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Trends, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Nagro, Sarah A.; Shepherd, Katharine G.; West, Jane E.; Nagy, Steven J. – Journal of Special Education, 2019
Special education scholars have traditionally experienced a significant disconnect between their experience as researchers and the fast-paced realities of policy and politics. We propose that higher education leaders should be drivers of change, not recipients of outcomes, and by extension, that there is a need to ensure that the preparation of…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Change Agents, Leadership Training, Policy Formation
Dunn, Lenay; Ambroso, Eric – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2019
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in 2015, signaled a major shift in the roles of states and districts in supporting school improvement. Under ESSA, state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) have more responsibility and flexibility in developing and implementing plans, informed by local context, to support the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, State Departments of Education