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Adam Kissel – James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2024
Getting and keeping accreditation is critical for almost all colleges in the United States. Accreditation is third-party validation that a college meets minimum standards. Not only is institutional accreditation required for participation in federal student loan programs, but without accreditation, it is hard (if not impossible) to be authorized…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Colleges, Geographic Regions, Power Structure
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Duarte, Bryan J. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2021
In the voyage to increase student achievement, centralized education agencies apply pressure to school principals and teachers in ways that transform their work. This critical ethnographic study of a historically underperforming public elementary school serving predominantly Latinx/a/o students in Texas utilized poststructural theories of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Governance, Educational Policy, Principals
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Young, Michelle D.; VanGronigen, Bryan A.; Reynolds, Amy Luelle – Educational Policy, 2019
Few scholars have engaged in close examinations of state boards of education (SBOEs), their make-up, or the broader implications of their influence over time. SBOE membership, authority, and impact differ significantly across the 50 states. This article reports findings from an exploratory study of three SBOEs and their role as policy actors.…
Descriptors: State Boards of Education, Role, Power Structure, Educational Policy
Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, 2018
This analysis of college- and career-ready standards implementation is grounded in the policy attributes framework, which states that the more specific, consistent, authoritative, powerful, and stable a policy is, the better implementation will be (Porter, 1994). "Specificity" refers to how extensive, detailed, or prescriptive a policy…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Policy, State Standards
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Rubin, Paul G. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
The United States has faced stagnant postsecondary education degree completion rates for over a decade. When coupled with improved educational outcomes in other nations, the one-time world leader in higher education attainment has precipitously declined in standing internationally. Coupling this reality with the need for a more educated workforce…
Descriptors: State Policy, State Action, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1980
The theme of the meeting for which these profiles were prepared is "Coordinating Higher Education: Setting State Policies in the 80s." The profiles of the 14 states covered by the Southern Regional Education Board (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Budgeting, Governance, Governing Boards