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NCLB and Its Wake: Bad News for Democracy
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Meens, David E.; Howe, Kenneth R. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: Local control has historically been a prominent principle in education policymaking and governance. Culminating with the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), however, the politics of education have been nationalized to an unprecedented degree, and local control has all but disappeared as a principle framing education policymaking.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Democratic Values, Democracy
Reconciling an Ecological Curricular Framework Focusing on Quality of Life Outcomes with the Development and Instruction of Standards-Based Academic Goals
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Hunt, Pam; McDonnell, John; Crockett, Margret A. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2012
The emergence of the standards-based reform movement has raised a number of issues related to the design of educational programs for students with severe disabilities, and a debate has arisen that presents an "either/or" choice between the general education curriculum and an ecological curricular framework that has traditionally guided…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Lifelong Learning, Quality of Life, Curriculum Development
A Case Study of the Essential Supports Which Make up the Framework of a Turnaround School
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Donaldson, Rebecca Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2012
States have been given flexibility under No Child Left Behind to create need-driven comprehensive school improvement plans with an approved accountability system, however those unable to show increased student learning will be deemed as failing. Schools labeled as failing require a comprehensive framework for improvement. Research has identified a…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Case Studies, Failure, Educational Improvement
A Guide to the Development of Vocational Education Programs and Services for the Disadvantaged.
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National Committee on Employment of Youth, New York, NY. – 1969
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 call for important changes of emphasis in American education. Specifically, the law requires that at least 15 percent of the basic Federal allotment to vocational education be used only for disadvantaged persons. In this context, a national workshop on vocational education for the disadvantaged was…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Involvement, Counseling Services, Curriculum Development
Early Education for American Indian and Alaska Native Children in Rural America
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Thompson, Nicole L.; Hare, R. Dwight – Zero to Three, 2006
Young American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children are four times as likely to live in rural communities as in nonrural communities. The challenge of providing developmentally and culturally appropriate early childhood education to Native children living in rural areas is exacerbated by poverty. The author reviews the historic evolution of…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Early Childhood Education, American Indians, Alaska Natives
Clearinghouse ADELL's Catalog of Adult Education Projects, Fiscal Year 1978, Funded under the Adult Education Act Sections 306 (A) (4) and 309 (1) and (2).
Clearinghouse Adell, Rockville, MD. – 1978
This catalog summarizes the information provided by forty-six states on 360 adult basic education projects funded under sections 306A and 309 of the amended Adult Education Act of 1966 during fiscal year 1978. Each of the one-page summaries, arranged alphabetically by state, includes one or all of the following: the state identifier, a subject…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Catalogs, Community Involvement