Situated within the context of globalization, the purpose of this historical policy analysis study was to identify and describe the ways in which multiple actors shaped national higher education internationalization policy within the U.S., and to capture the emerging direction in higher education internationalization policy at the national level…

In March 2009, the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition hosted a workshop called "Shaping Tomorrow Today: Near-Term Steps Towards Long-Term Goals." The workshop gave policymakers and analysts an opportunity to explore new methods and tools that can help improve long-term decisionmaking. The…

The purpose of this article is to document the relationship in institutionalized policy choice and conditions of resource availability in a selected societal subsystem, the schools. (Author)

This report attempts to clarify certain aspects of educational research policy According to the preface, the objectives of a research policy cannot be formulated except in the context of educational and related policy goals. The organization of the decision-making process to achieve the objectives must be brought into the picture. In effect,…

Participatory planning in educational systems is discussed in this conference paper. Definition is given to the hierarchical decision-making structure often characterized in societal systems. Tendencies towards change in the decision-making structure in educational systems are noted. (SM)

Discusses the processes by which science education policy is determined at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Included are the degree of the involvement of different groups in policy-making, major issues related to the role of the NSF, and policies currently in effect. (HM)

Author has just completed his third spell at the Department of Education and Science. Here the ex-Minister of State looks at some of the policy initiatives which he had been involved in during the past two years. (Editor/RK)

Teacher educators everywhere are examining programs and delivery modes as a result of a decade of studies and commissions on the reform of teacher education. However, for teacher education policy makers in developing areas, the contexts of teacher education hold special implications. The purpose of this paper is to identify a number of crucial…

This is a preliminary projection of holistic, alternative future patterns that might emerge among the institutions of education in the United States during the next few decades. These alternative educational patterns (AEPs) are associated in each case with broader contexts offered by selected Contingent U.S. Patterns (CUSPs). It is expected that…

The purposes of this paper are threefold: 1) to explore several ways in which rational policy-making can be approached; 2) to discuss various plausible explanations for the findings and intervention strategies which seem to be consequent with those explanations; and 3) to determine the strengths and weaknesses of various specific intervention…

A product of research first begun by one of the authors in Bangladesh, this book develops a comprehensive set of methods for planning technical education. Wherever possible, the authors draw on existing tools, fitting them to the specific context of technical education. When faced with planning problems for which existing methods are ill suited…

This report states the positions and goals of the Council of Chief State School Officers relative to State-federal relationships. The report covers (1) the need for cooperative efforts in State-federal relationships, (2) the establishment of national goals and priorities, (3) the administration and services of the Office of Education, (4) the…

Exploring a significant segment of rural education research and field experience in the developing nations, the communication of relevant knowledge to disadvantaged rural populations was examined in terms of: situational-structural variables (factors of physical location, environmental or ecosystem relationships, and community structures); client…

This book is a compilation of the edited versions of a representative selection of papers on school and community presented at a European conference involving more than twenty countries. The papers are arranged in three sections. The first section of six papers lays the framework for the discussion which follows. Section 2, comprised of six papers…