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Advocates or Honest Information Brokers? Examining the Higher Education Public Policy Agenda-Setting Processes of Intermediary Organizations
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Orphan, Cecilia M.; Laderman, Sophia; Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely – Review of Higher Education, 2021
This multiple-site case study of 24 intermediary organizations (IOs) engaged in postsecondary public policy examined how they identify policy issues and move issues, problems, and solutions onto the higher education policy agenda. Specifically, this study used agenda-setting theory to examine how IOs construct higher education policy issues,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Agenda Setting, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Statement by Richard D. Salvatierra, Assistant National Director, LULAC National Education Service Centers, Accompanied by Mr. Roger W. Gomez, Legislative Assistant, LULAC National Education Service Centers before the Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, October 9, 1975.
Salvatierra, Richard D. – 1975
In 1965 Congress passed the Higher Education Act which provided the Federal government a more significant role in determining the course of higher education. The LULAC's (League of United Latin American Citizens) National Education Service Centers (LNESC) firmly supports the extension of the Higher Education Act, as amended in 1972. LNESC…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities, Federal Government
Special Education: A Reference Book for Policy & Curriculum Development. Second Edition
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Grey House Publishing, 2009
A reference work that presents a chronology focusing on special education, its development, and the important issues that both positively and negatively affect the field. Updated through current events, this second edition provides an excellent introduction to special education in all of its practical aspects--how it developed, its curriculum,…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational History, General Education, Legal Responsibility
Taking the Initiative on National Issues. AASCU Annual Report 1991.
Snead, Sam; Clyburn, Gay – 1991
This annual report of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) presents statements from the leadership and papers on issues of prominent importance in the state higher education systems. Following a display of photographs of board of director members, brief greetings from the board's chair, Eugene M. Hughes, and the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Development, Educational Change, Educational Finance