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McDonald, Lauren – Educational Policy, 2014
This research examines how the conservative movement has used both conservative think tanks and the media to gain entry into the field of education policy. The study examines how the conservative movement has attempted to use think tanks as legitimating organizations to enter the education policy arena by (a) measuring the historical growth in the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Organizations (Groups), Policy Formation
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Harrington, Billie Graham; CHiXapkaid (Pavel, D. Michael) – American Journal of Education, 2013
The principal assertion of this article is that Indigenous research methodologies should be used to develop educational policies and practices for Native students. The history of American educational research is marred by a near complete dismissal of Indigenous knowledge, as Western research methodologies continue to define the landscape of P-12…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Indigenous Knowledge, Mainstreaming, Educational Change
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DeBray, Elizabeth; Houck, Eric A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
This article uses an institutional framework to analyze the political context of the next reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The authors analyze three relevant factors in the institutional environment: the role of traditional party politics, including theories of divided versus unified party government; the entrance of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Politics of Education
Parker, Laurence, Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2007
Passed by the U.S. Congress in the spring of 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was one of the most significant and expansive education policy initiatives ever undertaken by the federal government. The main component of the act, Title I, allocated significant resources to…
Descriptors: Poverty, Elementary Education, Federal Legislation, Ideology
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DeBray-Pelot, Elizabeth H. – Teachers College Record, 2007
This article is a policy analysis that considers how the policy option of using federal programs to promote educational choice was proposed and debated in the 106th and 107th Congresses. This debate was part of the reauthorization of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) between 1999 and 2001. Over the past 20 years,…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Private Schools, Privatization, Elementary Secondary Education
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DeBray, Elizabeth H. – Review of Research in Education, 2005
In January 2002, Republican President George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. The most conservative congressional Republicans, who opposed the bill's extensive new testing mandates and absence of school voucher provisions, were largely left out in…
Descriptors: Ideology, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy