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Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell; Edwards, Erica B.; Claiborne, Joi; Singer, Jeremy; French, Kate Rollert – Educational Policy, 2022
Collaborative problem-solving research approaches have the potential to support improvement in educational policy and practice beyond instruction, by facilitating the development of a shared understanding of complex problems and creating social structures where district, community, and research partners can work together to solve them. This study…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Attendance, Educational Policy, Educational Change
New York State School Boards Association, Albany. – 1988
School staff members need continuing opportunities to learn and grow because the waves of social change strike them first and most powerfully. Research on effective schools tends to stress staff development as crucial. School boards are involved in the development of their staff. A staff development program of broad scope and sharp focus can…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Change Strategies, Educational Change
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Crowson, Robert L.; Morris, Van Cleve – Metropolitan Education, 1987
Examines the implementation of the comprehensive school reform package enacted by the Illinois legislature in 1985. Reform initiatives have produced little controversy in the educational community. District superintendents use the reform law to effect their own, local reform agendas. Superintendents respond to reform pressures by adopting…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Board of Education Policy, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
McLaughlin, Milbrey W. – 1974
The passage of Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act embodied not only the high hopes of reformers, but also an implicit challenge. Title I implied that current practices are inadequate, and the schools were given the assignment of self-renewal. However, almost a decade after the passage of Title I, the general verdict is that…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
Stone, Susan C. – 1987
This manual is intended to serve independent schools beginning strategic planning methods. Chapter 1, "The Case for Strategic Planning," suggests replacing the term "long range planning" with the term "strategic planning," which emphasizes change. The strategic planning and policy development process begins with…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Educational Change
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English, Jill – Journal of School Health, 1994
Outlines innovations needed in school health education programs at four levels--national, state, school district, and school site. Implications for health education program developers at each level are indicated. (SM)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Woodruff, Jane Bruner – 1986
This paper traces the evolution of curriculum reform in Mississippi from a state level, norm-referenced accountability system to a performance-based, centralized accreditation system that integrates instructional management requirements into improvement standards. Accountability legislation has primarily been concerned with quality of student…
Descriptors: Accountability, Board of Education Policy, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development