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What to Do with the Bounty? Organizational Patterns for the Implementation of Resources Allocated by the Courage to Change (Oz Letmura) Reform
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Tamir, Emanuel; Shaked, Lea – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
The research investigated the way in which school administrations implement resources provided by Israel's "Courage to Change" reform. The uniqueness of this reform stems from the fact that the allocated resources come in the form of "weekly instruction time" rather than finance, and the school management needs to decide how to…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Program Implementation, Educational Change, School Administration
Principled Neglect and Compliance: Responses to NCLB and the CCSS at an Expeditionary Learning Middle School
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Stern, Rebecca – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
This qualitative study explored educators' sense making of and responses to No Child Left Behind and the Common Core State Standards at one urban Expeditionary Learning middle school. Sense-making theory (Spillane, Reiser, & Reimer, 2002) and inquiry as stance (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 2009) were used as complementary conceptual frameworks…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Response, Educational Legislation
How Building Principals Made Sense of Free and Appropriate Public Education in the Least Restrictive Environment
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Sumbera, Meagan J.; Pazey, Barbara L.; Lashley, Carl – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2014
Confusion among school leaders regarding how to interpret and implement special education legislation, and specific federal and state policies and mandates such as a free and appropriate public education (FAPE), in the least restrictive environment (LRE) at the school-site level has existed since the 1970s and continues to exist. This…
Descriptors: Public Education, Principals, Educational Facilities, School Buildings
Primary Class Size Reduction: How Policy Space, Physical Space, and Spatiality Shape What Happens in Real Schools
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Bascia, Nina; Faubert, Brenton – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2012
This article reviews the literature base on class size reduction and proposes a new analytic framework that we believe provides practically useful explanations of how primary class size reduction works. It presents descriptions of classroom practice and grounded explanations for how class size reduction affects educational core activities by…
Descriptors: Class Size, Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews