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Direct linkKeddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Download full textChristian Buerger; Jane Arnold Lincove; Catherine Mata – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
School autonomy has been and continues to be one of the most important education reform strategies around the world despite ambiguity about its theoretical and empirical effects on students learning. We use international data from PISA to test three country-level factors that might account for inconsistent results in prior literature: (1) the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Desai Trilokekar, Roopa – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This paper examines how international education (IE) as a tool of government foreign policy is challenged in an era of new geopolitics, where China's growing ambitions have increased rivalry with the West. It compares U.S. and Canada as cases first, by examining rationales and approaches to IE in both countries, second, IE relations with China…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, International Relations, Comparative Education
Bergan, Sjur – Council for Higher Education Accreditation, 2020
Academic freedom and institutional autonomy are among the fundamental values of higher education. In Europe, they underpin the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), which was established in 1999, a decade after the launch of the profound changes in central and eastern Europe and slightly over two decades after the adoption of the Magna Charta…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, Higher Education
Franck, Emilie; Nicaise, Ides – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
There is some scepticism about the effectiveness of equity funding policies (EFPs). However, many studies focus only on one particular EFP in one education system. The present paper draws lessons from a review of the North American and European literature. In general, EFPs did not always meet the expectations of policymakers and educational…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Policy, Resource Allocation
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2019
The impacts of the 2018 elections were felt in the 2019 state legislative sessions across the country. While charter school supporters continued to rack up legislative victories on increasing funding and facilities support, strengthening accountability, and protecting autonomy, they also faced political climates in several states that were…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Facilities
Saini, Ruchi – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2020
Despite having one of the largest and fastest-growing post-secondary sectors in the world, there has been increasing protest against the lack of academic freedom within HEIs in India in the past decade. This research study carries out a comparative analysis of academic freedom within HEIs in India and the U.S., with a specific focus on how the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Academic Freedom, Censorship, Freedom of Speech
Boyle, Mary-Ellen – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2019
Liberal education as a form of higher education is increasing globally even as it struggles for support and legitimacy in the USA. Its emergence and spread are only partially attributable to the growth in the tertiary sector worldwide: although the sharpest spike has been in Asia, new programs have opened in Western Europe, Russia and the Middle…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Educational Trends, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2016
The coming 2016 fall elections influenced legislative activity for charter public schools during this year's state legislative sessions. This November, legislative elections will be held in 46 states, and gubernatorial elections will be held in 12 states. These looming elections became an excuse for some legislators to avoid tough votes on…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Facilities
Cox, Rebecca D.; Sallee, Margaret W. – Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Community colleges in the United States and Canada operate within postsecondary environments that are being reshaped by neoliberal policymaking. As community colleges in both countries respond to the pressures of neoliberalism, their capacity to serve students already marginalized by their "nontraditional" status may be affected in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Community Colleges, Neoliberalism
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2015
2015 has proved to be another active year for public charter school legislation across the country. This report provides a summary of the state legislative highlights for public charter schools during the 2015 state legislative sessions. To detail the plethora of activity that's taking place, this summary is organized into the following…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Facilities
Keddie, Amanda – Comparative Education Review, 2016
This article takes a critical comparative approach to examining autonomous schooling in the United States and Australia. Amid the market imperatives currently driving education priorities, its focus is on how autonomy can be mobilized in ways that preserve the integrity of public education. Through reference to key debates and research about…
Descriptors: Public Education, Integrity, Comparative Analysis, Institutional Autonomy
Xia, Jiangang; Gao, Xingyuan; Shen, Jianping – Chinese Education & Society, 2017
This study examined and compared school autonomy in China and the United States. Based on the international PISA 2012 school data, the authors examined three aspects of school autonomy. We found that in comparison with the United States, (1) principals from China were less likely to have responsibility over eleven school decisions (hiring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Institutional Autonomy
Klein, Esther Dominique – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: Increased school autonomy and accountability have been a common denominator of national reforms in otherwise heterogeneous governance systems in Europe and the USA. The paper argues that because schools serving disadvantaged communities (SSDCs) often have lower average performance, they are more often sanctioned or under closer scrutiny,…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Accountability, Disadvantaged Schools, Regression (Statistics)
Dinham, Stephen – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
This commentary explores the so-called global "crisis" in education and the corresponding pressures and moves to "reform" education, and in particular, public education. The myths underpinning and driving these developments are examined. Supposed problems with (public) education and proposed solutions are explored. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Privatization
