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A. Chris Torres – AERA Open, 2023
This study uses framing theory and the concept of causal stories to examine beliefs about causes and solutions to improving chronically low-performing schools in response to Michigan's school turnaround policy. Across cases, policymakers and district leaders assigned most responsibility to poor leadership, poverty, and chronic educator turnover as…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Public Officials
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Ekkehard Nuissl; Simona Sava; Éva Farkas – European Journal of Education, 2024
For about 30 years, the European Union has been politically active in the field of Education and Training with a broad set of aims, measures and tools. All member states were involved in these politics, creating a kind of European profile. Adult education was an important pillar. A number of adult educators involved in various organisations at…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Program Effectiveness, Barriers, Educational Policy
Catherine Brown – National College Attainment Network, 2023
State financial aid is a critical piece of college affordability for students from low-income backgrounds. Nearly three quarters of all students attend college in their home state - which is typically a requirement for state-based financial aid - and first-generation and students from low-income backgrounds are even more likely than their peers to…
Descriptors: State Aid, Paying for College, Low Income Students, Student Financial Aid
Bornfreund, Laura; Ewen, Danielle; Lieberman, Abbie; Loewenberg, Aaron; McDonald, Davida; Fretwell, Joe – New America, 2021
State and local officials must establish effective and supportive transition policies that recognize an ongoing process and include collaboration across ECE settings and elementary schools. This toolkit offers immediate steps needed to strengthen children's transition this coming year and beyond. [Additional funding for this toolkit from the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Transitional Programs, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
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Oakes, Jeannie; Espinoza, Daniel – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
For more than a year, the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducted research in New Mexico, including interviews, site visits, document review, and new analyses of data provided by the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED). The purpose of the study was to provide New Mexico leaders a research perspective on the challenges facing education…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Evidence Based Practice, State Policy, Educational Policy
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Abdul-Rahim Mohammed; Jennifer Apiung – Educational Review, 2025
Financial barriers to education such as the payment of school fees have long been identified as a key driver of the perennially high out-of-school rates in developing countries. Accordingly, Ghana implemented the education capitation grant (CG) policy in 2005 as part of efforts to universalise access to primary education. At its core, the policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Access to Education, Grants
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Gulnaz Akhmetova; Zhuldyz Davletbayeva; Rymkul Ismailova; Zulfiya Torebekova – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2025
This study is dedicated to analyzing and evaluating government initiatives aimed at addressing migration challenges in Kazakhstan that manifest in uneven migration flows and significant disparities in population density between the southern and northern regions. The authors assess the implementation of a state program as part of their analysis,…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Public Policy, Migration Patterns, Population Trends
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Sohn, Hosung; Park, Heeran; Jung, Haeil – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
This paper analyzes the effect of providing extra school funding on student achievement under the homogenous school funding system in South Korea. This study exploits an administrative cutoff rule that determines the provision of school funding and uses a regression discontinuity design to identify a causal impact of extra school funding. The…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Financial Support
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Frank Fernandez; Yuan Chih Fu; Xiaodan Hu; Juan José Moradel Vásquez – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
States have adopted a variety of policies to encourage universities to expand research production, with the hope of supporting economic growth and competitiveness. This paper considers whether a state-level initiative succeeded in influencing university-based research outputs among regional public universities. We test whether the Texas Research…
Descriptors: State Programs, Educational Policy, Research and Development, Public Colleges
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Tashane Haynes Brown; Carol Hordatt Gentles – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
This review of initial teacher education (ITE) in Jamaica highlights the policies, pivotal events, educational initiatives and reforms that have shaped the landscape of teacher education in Jamaica over the last 50 years. It offers a critical reflection on the provision of ITE and the findings of a recent report on education in Jamaica, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Criticism, Barriers
Snow, Kyle – Region 8 Comprehensive Center, 2020
This brief arises from two distinct yet related activities currently underway within the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE). First, IDOE is preparing to review the state early learning standards. The idea for this brief arose initially in that context as a means of considering how to intentionally design and use early learning standards to…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Literacy, Grade 3
First Focus on Children, 2025
Universal voucher policies allow any student, regardless of their family income level or history of attending public schools, to be eligible to use public funding to attend private, often religious, schools or home schooling. From 2021 to 2025, the number of statewide universal voucher programs has gone from zero to thirteen. These efforts have…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Private Schools, Educational Finance, Privatization
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Ambreen, Mamonah; Hussain, Muhamad Athar – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2020
The objectives of this research were to find out implementation challenges of the educational projects and policies, analyze if these policies address the issue of out of school children, and explore the parental preferences for their children's future and concerns about the educational facilities. Cultural audit approach was adopted for…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Educational Policy, Access to Education, Suburbs
Vossensteyn, Hans; Kolster, Renze; File, Jon; Huisman, Jeroen; Seeber, Marco; Vukasovic, Martina; Muehleck, Kai; Gwosc, Christoph – European Commission, 2018
The country case studies are part of the empirical data collected for the "Promoting the Relevance of Higher Education" project. Before presenting the case studies, this introductory chapter describes how the 8 case studies were selected, the case study methodology, and provides an overview of the interviewed organisations and experts.…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Higher Education, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
Vossensteyn, Hans; Kolster, Renze; File, Jon; Huisman, Jeroen; Seeber, Marco; Vukasovic, Martina; Muehleck, Kai; Gwosc, Christoph – European Commission, 2018
This annex to the main report "Promoting the Relevance of Higher Education" includes the international policy literature study and the review of indicators. The objective of the literature study was to provide first insights into the policies that relate to the three dimensions of higher education relevance: personal development,…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews
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