Offers "framing questions" to help countries and communities create adaptable public policies related to adolescents and youth. Recommends principles for policy development, maintaining that social policy should focus on positive and nonacademic outcomes as well as negative outcomes and academic success, should be firmly connected to…

Employed a stakeholder framework to examine the changing salience levels of a state business group as it tried to shape educational policy during a 5-year period of intense state-level reform. Using case study methods, researchers address the relationship between the changing salience of the group and the dynamic environment of educational policy…

The five chapters of this special issue provide insights into how Scandinavians understand evaluation practice. Although there is no "Scandinavian" perspective on evaluation, theory and practice in the Scandinavian countries unfold against sociocultural and intellectual influences that differ from those of the United States. (SLD)

Examines the relation of scientific research on intelligence to issues of public policy by reviewing a critical analysis of the Infant Health and Development Program, an early intervention program for low birth weight infants. Early intervention research can play an important role in shaping public policy. (SLD)

Examines state-civil society partnerships for policy implementation in developing countries. Considers the applicability of strategic management approaches to policy partnerships and suggests steps to strengthen the successful pursuit of state-civil society partnerships. Extensive references. (Author/JOW)

Based on a panel at the 10th World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, this paper discusses how an initiative to promote girls' education in Zambia has influenced policy development to the point where the Zambian Ministry of Education now has clear directives on girls' education. Analyzes some of the important factors contributing to this…

Explores globalization in higher education as a policy paradigm. First examines various strands of globalization internationally--economic, political, cultural, technological--and how they relate to higher education. The specific example of Australia is then used to illustrate how one government is currently addressing globalization by introducing…

Asserts the importance of changing welfare policies to allow postsecondary education as a work activity. Discusses the history of welfare reform and the benefits of postsecondary education for welfare recipients; describes services provided to welfare recipients by several TRIO-sponsored Educational Opportunity Centers (EOCs); and offers…

Traces the influence of a body of international literature on the development of post-apartheid policies in South African higher education and training (HET), focusing on the emergence of a new mode of knowledge production and its impact on HET, and noting that questions of equity and economic development (and their interrelationship) are key…

This paper considers the way social partnerships tend to be represented as either horizontal localised networks or neo-liberal policy instruments. Building on two empirical studies of partnerships, we argue that partnerships cannot be understood in either/or ways but are negotiated at the interface between central agencies and local networks. They…

This chapter provides an overview of copyright and intellectual property law as it relates to education in general and telecommunicated instruction in particular. (Contains 3 notes.)

This paper argues that the work of teachers in England's primary schools has been reconstructed. It is proposed that the literacy curriculum has been a major factor in this reconstruction. The paper suggests that the purposes of literacy today have been determined by policy makers, and that the nature of policy texts has changed, hardened, into…

Bottom-up reform as a policy strategy for decades has faltered in implementation. This article starts from the premise that these disappointing results stem from researchers' and practitioners' almost exclusive focus on implementation in schools or on what some call "the bottom" of hierarchical education systems but not shifts in policy…

The author discusses how to create good policies about technology use among school districts. Disagreements over technology use policies have at their core two disparate sets of priorities--one held by the technical staff and one by educators. The author argues that open dialogue and clear understanding about technology are essential for its…

Since 2001, considerations of school reform have been dominated by performance-based accountability. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has changed the way policymakers and educators talk about education, look at educational performance, and think about educational challenges. Nonetheless, NCLB and the state accountability systems it has spawned have…