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Edgar Quilabert; Mauro C. Moschetti – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
Narratives on innovation in education are spreading fast and both national and local educational administrations have been recently promoting innovation policies and programmes in many different European contexts. Academic literature analysing the potential benefits of innovation in education has expanded accordingly, with some international…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Program Implementation
Aislinn Brennan; Maeve O'Grady – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2023
Adult Education in the Republic of Ireland has experienced exponential change. Since 2013, the Further Education and Training (FET) sector has developed and implemented a range of strategies and policies transforming the landscape. Policy implementation is a complex process and as the 16 Education and Training Boards work to interpret FET policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Shai Katzir; Lotem Perry-Hazan – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
Education policies are typically anchored in official texts that provide a foundation for their enactment in schools. What are the implications of an "invisible" policy not anchored in any official text due to political motives? This study explores the enactment of an invisible education policy that regulates religious enclave schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
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Waslander, Sietske; Hooge, Edith H.; Theisens, Henno C. – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
This paper develops a new, broader, and more realistic lens to study (lacking) linkages between government policy and school practices. Drawing on recent work in organization theory, we advance notions on cluster of organization routines and the logic of complementarities underlying organizational change. This lens allows looking at how schools do…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Organizational Change, Secondary Schools
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Caves, Katherine Marie; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Purpose: Education policy implementation is as important as policy design. This study applies a literature-based, multi-dimensional framework for success factors and barriers to vocational education and training (VET) reform implementation in the case of a new dual VET law in Serbia. We use the framework to assess factors related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Vocational Education
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A. Chris Torres; Sandy Frost Waldron; Jason Burns – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
This mixed-method study examines Michigan's Partnership policy for school turnaround, which positions the district and superintendents as key policy implementation actors. We first interviewed 21 of 35 Partnership superintendents/leaders across Michigan and surveyed teachers to understand the initial response to the turnaround policy and the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Superintendents, School Districts, School Turnaround
Alexander C. Cassell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
State governments are regularly reexamining the statewide board governance arrangements over public higher education, enacting governance reforms that change the structure or authority granted to boards by state legislatures. While previous research has studied governance reforms, there is a lack of recent studies on such reforms and what…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Governance, State Policy, Educational Policy
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Jill M. Aldridge; Felicity I. McLure – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
Although the role of leadership in school improvement is widely recognized, there is less understanding of what leaders can do to support (and mitigate barriers to) the implementation of mandated educational change. This systematic literature review analyzed findings from 191 relevant primary studies published between 2000 and 2020 and identified…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Barriers, Capacity Building, Leadership Role
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Daramola, Eupha Jeanne; Allbright, Taylor N.; Marsh, Julie A. – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background: In recent years, school districts have experienced a complex policy environment with myriad reforms aimed at addressing longstanding and historically entrenched disparities in opportunities and outcomes between racially minoritized students and White students. One such reform is standards-based accountability, with its emphasis on…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Policy, Educational Policy, Racism
Region 11 Comprehensive Center, 2023
As part of a standards revision project for the state of Nebraska, the Region 11 Comprehensive Center in partnership with the American Institutes of Research, conducted a scan of publicly available state information and existing research on revision processes. From that, we've created this guide sharing 10 key elements states should consider when…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Revision (Written Composition), Policy Formation, Educational Policy
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Parra-Perez, Lizeth Guadalupe; Gloeckner, Gene W.; Valdés-Cuervo, Angel Alberto; Addo, Reuben; Harindranathan, Priya – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
Educational researchers need to pay more attention to understanding the perspectives of implementers as a means to preventing future implementation failures. In an attempt to elucidate the reasons for resistance to the implementation of the 2013 education reform in Mexico, qualitative methods were used to explore the lived experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Resistance to Change, Teacher Attitudes
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Tutlys, Vidmantas; Bukantaite, Daiva; Melnyk, Sergii; Anužis, Aivaras – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2021
The paper compares the institutional development of skills formation in Lithuania and Ukraine by focusing on the implications of the post-communist transition and Europeanization and exploring the role of policy transfer. The research follows the theoretical approach of historical institutionalism and skills formation ecosystems. Despite similar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Policy Formation, Educational Policy
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Wei, Feng; Ni, Yongmei; Yoon, Irene H. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
As improving low-performing schools has become a critical strategy to achieve educational equity in China, local educational departments have implemented various school collaboration programs. Drawing on international literature and empirical data from in-depth interviews and policy documents in two Chinese urban districts, this multiple-case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Districts, Educational Improvement, Educational Cooperation
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Supovitz, Jonathan; McGuinn, Patrick – Educational Policy, 2019
This article analyzes the messages and strategies of a sample of education interest groups, and assesses their interpretations of the political context to understand how the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) lost both political and public support during the crucial period of 2013-2014. Based on interviews with representatives of 19 interest…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Program Implementation, Politics of Education, Educational Policy
Foster, Kelly Robson; Robinson, Brian; Ali, Titilayo Tinubu – Bellwether, 2023
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, K-12 schools are under immense pressure to meet the diverse needs of students. But policies and practices have not evolved quickly enough to meet those needs -- and as a result, the system continues to fail far too many young people. In "Levers of Change: How State Policies Support District…
Descriptors: Educational Change, State Policy, Educational Innovation, School Districts
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