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Adams, Paul – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
This paper presents a new heuristic device for the analysis of educational policy. Through an examination of the Evaluative State and the work of Brian Fay, the paper considers the way in which educational policy is subject to rational and linear forms of policy action and implementation. To counter this, positioning theory is deployed to consider…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Policy Analysis, Heuristics
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Flessa, Joseph; Bramwell, Daniela; Fernandez, Magdalena; Weinstein, José – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
School site leadership has commanded the attention of researchers and policymakers in Anglo-American jurisdictions for at least two decades, but little is known about how many other parts of the globe have addressed this topic. This paper reviews published research and policy documents related to school leadership in Latin America between…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Literature Reviews, Position Papers, Leadership
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Roumell, Elizabeth Anne; Salajan, Florin Daniel – Educational Policy, 2016
The purpose of this study was threefold: to expand on existing reviews of 20 years of educational technology policy in the United States, to perform an empirical content analysis of the four National Education Technology Plan (NETP) documents issued by the Department of Education since 1996, and to provide a dialectic analysis of the evolution of…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Technology Planning, Electronic Learning, Educational Policy
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Kredenets, Nadiya – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2016
The article deals with the problem of forming social partnership policy in vocational training of service sector specialists in Germany and Austria. The foreign and domestic pedagogical experience in establishing an effective system of social partnership in vocational education has been analyzed. The author has considered main factors of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Partnerships in Education, Policy Formation
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Openshaw, Roger – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2014
This paper endorses Dick Selleck and Geoffrey Sherington's view that public policy-making is characterised by both fluidity and contestability. In April 1988, the report of a Taskforce headed by Brian Picot recommended major reforms in New Zealand's public education system. Even today, however, there is controversy regarding the major influences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Public Policy, Public Education
Miranda, Norbella; Berdugo, Martha; Tejada, Harvey – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
The current internationalization trends in higher education and educational language policies impel universities to plan their provision of foreign languages. Often, universities are developing language policies, redesigning their foreign language programs and seeking to foster bilingual or multilingual strategies within graduate and undergraduate…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, English (Second Language)
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Freeman, Brigid – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2014
The agencies responsible for tertiary education quality assurance in Australia and New Zealand have established regulatory regimes that increasingly intersect with tertiary institution policy management. An examination of university meta-policies identified good practices guiding university policy and policy management. Most Australian and half of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Benchmarking, Postsecondary Education, Educational Policy
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Pappas, Liza N. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
The state mandated public hearings concerning school closing proposals in New York City provide a window into a diverse set of policy actors and their deliberations. Opposition to school closures is often cast as entrenched interests, emotional attachment, support for the status quo or at worst negligence. However, content analysis reveals that…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Hearings, School Closing
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Govender, Logan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
This article contends that teacher unions' participation in policy making during South Africa's political transition was characterised by assertion of ideological identity (unionism and professionalism) and the cultivation of policy networks and alliances. It is argued that, historically, while teacher unions were divided along political and…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Unions, Teacher Associations, Participation
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Barzanò, Giovanna; Grimaldi, Emiliano – Journal of Education Policy, 2013
Italy is well known for its difficulty in introducing any educational evaluation system. This paper explores the dynamics which occurred in Italy in 2010-2011, within the context of the umpteenth national pilot of school and staff evaluation. Our research object is an unfinished project, observed in its development. We get close to the struggles…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Merit Rating, Policy Analysis
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Satterlund, Travis D.; Treiber, Jeanette; Cassady, Diana – Journal of Drug Education, 2013
California state-funded local tobacco control projects have instituted smoke-free multi-unit housing (MUH) policy adoption campaigns in order to secure voluntary policy throughout the state. While landlords can legally prohibit smoking at MUH complexes in California, they often oppose such measures. The objective of this study was to analyze…
Descriptors: Housing, Smoking, Public Policy, Advocacy
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Jaiani, Vasil; Whitford, Andrew B. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the policy process that led to the passage of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act in the United States and the Bush Administration's role in this process. Design/methodology/approach: The research design is historical and archival. A description of the NCLB Act is given and the major provisions and…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Government Role
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James, Helen; Huisman, Jeroen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2009
This study seeks to compare the mission statements of higher education institutions in Wales as well as to compare these with regional level policy statements and demands from the market. The underlying idea is to reveal the extent to which mission statements actually differ and are (or are not) in line with such regional policies and market…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Diversity (Institutional), Foreign Countries, Position Papers
Watt, Michael G. – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study was to evaluate decision making in the Common Core State Standards Initiative as the change process moved from research, development and diffusion activities to adoption of the Common Core State Standards by the states. A decision-oriented evaluation model was used to describe the four stages of planning, structuring,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, State Schools, State Standards, Governance
Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, 2010
This report uses the three-component framework to categorize and synthesize major recommendations to Congress for the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) reauthorization and briefly analyzes them from the perspective of the third component. The analysis illuminates fundamental gaps in the prevailing recommendations. In particular, this…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Barriers, Performance Factors
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