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Clara Fontdevila; Antoni Verger – Comparative Education Review, 2025
Although the role of international organizations in the diffusion of education policy is widely acknowledged, their role in the articulation of policy ideas remains comparatively underresearched. This article addresses this gap through a case study on the role of the OECD in the construction of the School Autonomy with Accountability policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Models, International Organizations
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Farah Dubois-Shaik – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
A major reform of teacher training has been underway for the past three decades in French-speaking Belgium, in response to the low quality of teacher training and the consequences for school teaching and learning deemed to be in deep crises. Using a number of eclectic methods (metaphors, typologies, timelines, network maps), we map controversies…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Wicks, Anne; Taylor-Raymond, Justine – George W. Bush Institute, 2023
It is clear that young people bore the brunt of the pandemic's impact. Disrupted learning, sometimes stretching for two years, forced many students off track and behind academically. Leaders are now faced an unprecedented need to make smart investments with federal relief funds in efforts that accelerate student learning. District leaders should…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Wilson, Scott C. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to better understand educators' perceptions of testing accommodations decision-making practices at New York area independent schools. Through the analysis and coding of questionnaires, interviews, and documents, this study explored perceptions and descriptions of testing accommodations decision-making procedures as…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Alex Tabarrok – Journal of Economic Education, 2025
During the pandemic, the economic way of thinking was extraordinarily useful, leading to a quick consensus among economists of widely differing political persuasions on many issues of pandemic policy. Yet speaking to politicians, bureaucrats, and the public revealed many ways in which the economic way of thinking was foreign and sometimes…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Economics, Economics Education
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Paul G. Rubin; Shawn R. Coon; Cheri A. Daily – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
Research on higher education policy in the United States often seeks to understand commonalities across state contexts to understand broader concepts influencing decision-making. However, this minimises the importance of abstract and distinct factors impacting policy processes within a state. While researchers in other fields attribute these…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, State Legislation
Jessica Arnold; Julie Webb – WestEd, 2024
While there are many different types of education data, policymakers and education leaders often place heavy emphasis on data from large-scale quantitative measures, such as annual state assessments. But data from these sources alone do not provide a complete picture of learning and are often not well suited to informing improvements at the local…
Descriptors: Data Use, Measurement, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education
Robert Werden – ProQuest LLC, 2024
School superintendents make many decisions throughout their careers in an attempt to educate students. Many people, both inside and outside of education try to influence the decisions made by superintendents. Many of these influences are political in nature. This study looks at the history and levels of political influence in education, identifies…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes, Politics of Education, Decision Making
Juli L. Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teacher attrition, or teachers voluntarily leaving the field, has been a persistent problem in United States public schools and serves as one of the primary drivers of the urgent teacher shortage crisis. Mitigating teacher attrition requires a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of why teachers leave the field. This dissertation employs three…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Public School Teachers, Teacher Shortage
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Dan Liu; W. John Morgan; Xiaopeng Zhang; Wenfeng Wu – SAGE Open, 2024
Despite private tutoring gaining increasing popularity in many countries, studies of the choice of and rationale for private tutoring among Chinese parents before and after the "double reduction" policy (issued on July 24, 2021) in China are limited. This mixed-methods paper compares parents' choice of private tutoring before and after…
Descriptors: Private Education, Tutoring, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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Barringer, Sondra N.; Riffe, Karley A.; Collier, Kate – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
The boundaries of higher education organizations (HEOs) are becoming increasingly porous both in the USA and globally. Research has shown that individuals within universities (e.g., trustees and faculty) can serve as boundary spanners who connect universities to their external environments. However, our knowledge of how individuals span HEO…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Administrator Role, Change, Interpersonal Relationship
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Friedrichs, Jörg – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
This article examines ethnic segregation in schools as a field where policy inaction, or non-decision making, is rife. A theoretical framework rooted in historical institutionalism and combining critical junctures with path dependencies enables the study of non-decision making and policy inaction. Moving from non-decision making as a general…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Ethnicity, Decision Making, Educational Policy
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Johanna Kallo; Jussi Välimaa – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
In response to uncertain times, liberal democracies aspire to develop anticipatory practices that usher in changes in policies and governance. These practices include creating visions and implementing roadmaps, which seek to address, and ultimately preempt, future challenges (Anderson, 2010). While such practices are increasingly implemented today…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Futures (of Society), Educational Policy
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Roberts, Julia Link – Gifted Child Today, 2022
Advocacy is important in order to have policy that establishes best practices at the local, state, and national levels. Planning an advocacy initiative includes setting the goal, crafting the advocacy message, having a point person for coordinating communication, researching the individual or group that can make the decision to put the initiative…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Educational Policy, Decision Making, State Policy
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Adolfsson, Carl-Henrik; Håkansson, Jan – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2023
From a new institutional theoretical perspective, this article explores school actors' sense-making linked to data-based decision making (DBDM) policy in general and processes of data analysis in particular. The study revealed how actors' interpretation of and response to DBDM pointed to strong and weak couplings between and within the local…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Improvement, Decision Making, Data Interpretation
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