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Koshy, Valsa; Smith, Carole Portman; Casey, Ronald – Gifted Child Today, 2018
This article presents and analyzes policies in identification and provisions in England with respect to gifted education. England has developed a national policy to provide services to identified students. Surveys and interviews with teachers illustrate how implementation of both identification and provision policy elements were handled. Although…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Academically Gifted
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Sezer, Senol – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2018
This study aiming to determine the metaphorical perceptions of prospective teachers regarding Turkey's education policies was modelled in the 'phenomenological pattern' which one of the qualitative research methods. The study group was 150 prospective teachers. Data was collected using a metaphor form and via focus group interviews. Descriptive…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Educational Policy, Figurative Language
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Shin, Chol-Kyun – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016
This study examines response patterns of pilot schools in the neo-institutional perspective to make improvements on the pilot school systematic framework. In order to achieve this goal, in-depth interviews were conducted to obtain qualitative data. The results show that pilot schools either (a) actively adopt or (b) ceremonially adopt an education…
Descriptors: Interviews, Qualitative Research, Educational Policy, Pilot Projects
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Bialik, Gadi; Gibton, Dan; Dror, Yuval – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2018
The study's target is to analyze how field-level coalition leaders, namely, the founding principals of Israeli specialized schools, perceive a "high-ambiguity and high-conflict" symbolic educational policy that apparently opposes the basic values that underlie the foundation of specialized schools. Based on an analysis of qualitative…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Context), Conflict, Special Schools, Principals
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Plotner, Anthony J.; Simonsen, Monica L. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine 41 secondary transition-focused personnel preparation projects funded between 2001 and 2016. Specifically, this study examined the amount and characteristics of these projects through a systematic abstract review. In addition, authors explored key issues in federally funded transition-focused personnel…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Transitional Programs, Telephone Surveys, Interviews
Banks, Laurie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study explores the outcomes of policy implementation from the perspective of the policy makers and the educators who are charged with implementation, specifically examining the decision-making process for district leaders during implementation. The study identifies the outcomes from the perspective of the policy-maker utilizing accountability…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Educational Policy, Reading, Decision Making
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Outhwaite, Deborah; Ferri, Giuliana – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
This paper investigates the changes in educational policy in England regarding the implementing of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (henceforth IBDP) into post-16 (sixth form) education. The aim is to illustrate the unique trajectory of the IBDP in England: from its adoption in schools and colleges across the country, to its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Policy, Secondary Education
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Graue, Elizabeth; Ryan, Sharon; Wilinski, Bethany; Northey, Kaitlin; Nocera, Amato – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Early childhood education joined the standards movement in 2002 with the Good Start, Grow Smart initiative (Brown, 2007), with advocates arguing that standards were a tool for creating more continuity and coherence in PreK systems (Bowman, 2006; Kagan 2012). Critics posed concerns about a perceived poor fit between…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Federal Programs, Academic Standards
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Reid, David B. – Journal of School Choice, 2018
Over the past decade U.S. policymakers, practitioners, and researchers have sought to examine if changing teacher evaluation policies and systems have resulted in changes in identifying quality teachers and/or increased student achievement. This research generally shows most states have experienced little change in how teachers are rated.…
Descriptors: Principals, Management Development, Teacher Evaluation, Comparative Analysis
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Ntho-Ntho, Albertina Maitumeleng; Nieuwenhuis, Jan – British Journal of Religious Education, 2016
Since 1995, the National Department of Education has developed a number of policies to give effect to the proposed transformation outlined in White Paper 1 (Notice 196 of 1995) and in subsequent legislation. A range of Acts and policies were introduced, many of them dealing with how religion should be dealt with in schools and it culminated in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Religion, Educational Legislation
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Kekez, Anka; Horvat, Martina; Šalaj, Berto – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper unfolds the ways in which Croatia, as a young post-communist democracy, has aligned its transition and consolidation with the development of education programs that would support the protection of human rights and the creation of a democratic political culture. Design/methodology/approach: By combining the existing studies with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Interviews, Documentation
Mavrogordato, Madeline; White, Rachel S. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017
As state and federal policymakers continue to adopt more centralized policies, it is increasingly important to understand how policies, particularly those designed to enhance education for underserved students, are implemented locally. We employ a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design to investigate the implementation of one policy, that…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Classification, Policy Analysis, Program Implementation
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Perryman, Jane; Ball, Stephen J.; Braun, Annette; Maguire, Meg – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
This paper deploys some concepts from the work of Michel Foucault to problematise the mundane and quotidian "practices" of policy translation as these occur in the everyday of schools. In doing that, we suggest that these "practices" are complicit in the formation of and constitution of teacher subjects, and their subjection to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Ethics, Professionalism
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Bartlett, Maggie; Otis-Wilborn, Amy; Peters, Lacey – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2017
The Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) has been widely adopted in schools of higher education across the United States. Different state education departments have set policies, to varying degrees, that determine the outcomes for passing the edTPA, with some requiring a passing score to obtain licensure. As a result of the high-stakes nature of…
Descriptors: Special Education, Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Performance Based Assessment
Geurin, Justin A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this research project was to conduct an exploratory analysis of the 2016 Mississippi Statewide Accountability System (MSAS), which is the model by which all public schools in Mississippi are assessed, rated, and ranked, in an attempt to assess whether or not the system is an effective policy tool, especially in relation to the goals…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Construct Validity, Educational Assessment, Accountability
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