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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
Duffy, Peter – Research in Drama Education, 2016
This essay considers the role that local control, poverty, access and policy play in providing drama/theatre education opportunities to students in the US. It examines how state and federal initiatives shape and determine the curriculum. While there are studies that suggest robust theatre education in the US, these findings are complicated when…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, School District Autonomy, Poverty, Access to Education
Download full textSmith, Joanna; Gasparian, Hovanes; Perry, Nicholas; Capinpin, Fatima – Center for American Progress, 2013
How a state chooses to design its system of funding schools is ultimately a question of education governance, determining who--state policymakers, school districts, or school principals--gets to make the decisions about how and where funding is spent. States have two primary ways of funding schools: the foundation, or base funding that is intended…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Finance, Funding Formulas, State Aid
Janmaat, Jan Germen; Mons, Nathalie – Comparative Education Review, 2011
The literature on political socialization has overlooked the influence of system characteristics of schooling on civic values and youth political identities. This article addresses that gap by investigating the degree to which system differentiation relates to the values of ethnic tolerance and patriotism. We distinguish between pedagogical…
Descriptors: Political Socialization, Public Education, Patriotism, Values
Budge, Kathleen M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2010
This article explores school and community leaders' beliefs about standards-based reform and the purposes of local schooling in a single rural community in the western United States. The study used interviews of 11 community and school leaders in the community. Participants engage in a balancing act between serving local interests and satisfying…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Education, Instructional Leadership, Help Seeking
Lynch, Kelly – Online Submission, 2014
With the failure of the No Child Left Behind policies of the 1990's, educational reformers wished to establish a "new and improved" set of standards for the United States to follow. However, since their inception in 2006-2007, the new Common Core State Standards have become increasingly unpopular due to the fact that they remain largely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Academic Standards, State Standards
Ashby, Cornelia M. – Government Accountability Office, 2008
In response to long-standing problems with student academic performance, the condition of school facilities, and the overall management of the D.C. public school system, the D.C. Council approved the Public Education Reform Amendment Act of 2007 (Reform Act). The Reform Act made major changes to the operations and governance of the D.C. public…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Public Schools, Educational Change, Educational Facilities
Peer reviewedvan Langen, Annemarie; Dekkers, Hetty – Comparative Education, 2001
Describes Dutch policies to combat educational disadvantage arising from economic, social, and cultural factors by funding efforts at the local level. Compares Dutch efforts to success factors and obstacles encountered in similar initiatives in the United States, England and Wales, and Australia, where public education and local authority have…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedBerger, Mark C. – Economics of Education Review, 1996
Studies on Indonesia and the Philippines in this special issue examine how local financial control affects costs of providing primary schooling. In both countries, schools with greater financial decentralization operated more efficiently. These results have important implications for U.S. schools, where decentralization reforms in Kentucky and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cost Effectiveness, Decentralization, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedCooper, Bruce S. – Educational Review, 1990
Examines trends toward more central regulation of schools and greater decentralization of authority to schools, teachers, and parents. Examines policy changes in those areas in Great Britain and the United States. (SK)
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedAllen, Tom – Journal of Law and Education, 1996
Examines the law of special educational needs in the United States and England, focusing on local authorities' power to determine provision levels. American courts have closely linked education and equality; constitutional law concentrates on the child's legal rights. The English system does not recognize a right to education or equal access to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Childrens Rights, Constitutional Law, Elementary Secondary Education
Herbst, Jurgen – Education Research and Perspectives, 2004
That the example of Prussia has played a crucial role in the development of public schools in the United States has long been commonplace among historians of education. There have been many writings reporting on visits to Prussian schools and whose accounts, like the "1834 Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia" by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Change, Public Schools
Weiss, Abby R. – New Schools, New Communities, 1994
Provides details of the approval and renewal-revocation process for 11 different charter-school programs in the United States and the charter-school scheme of the Russian Federation. The authors also report on three New England schools that have no charter but manage to find ways to neutralize the inhibiting influence of bureaucracy. (GLR)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
Glenn, Charles L. – Equity and Choice, 1992
Considers issues of school choice and school autonomy. Parents, society as a whole, and the educator team of each school should have a lead role in answering the basic questions about schooling. Examples from schools in other countries illustrate some new approaches to school autonomy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy
Everhart, Robert B., Ed. – 1982
The following 14 essays consider relationships among schooling, education, and the state; alternatives to existing systems; and educating minorities and the disadvantaged: (1) "Growing Up Blighted: Reflections on the 'Secret Power' in the American Experience" (C. Burgess); (2) "The Evolving Political Structure of American…
Descriptors: Community Control, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
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