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Chanana, Karuna – Higher Education for the Future, 2017
There is no doubt that until now significant progress has been made to include gender in the Indian education policy. Further, it is also recognized that investment in the education of both boys and girls with focus on equity is consistently the most powerful and important indicator of national development, as well as being a vehicle for the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Gender Issues, Research Reports
DeMers, Michael N. – Geography Teacher, 2016
Depending on how you determine the starting point for the technology driving geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, it is well over fifty years old now. During the first years of its existence in the early 1960s, the new technology benefited relatively few students who attended the handful of college programs that were actually…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Ability, Curriculum Development
Viennet, Romane; Pont, Beatriz – OECD Publishing, 2017
This literature review focuses on education policy implementation, its definition, processes and determinants. It aims to clarify what implementing policies involve in complex education systems to support policy work, building on the literature and country examples. An introduction delves into the reasons behind the need to update the concept of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Literature Reviews, Definitions
Ander, Roseanna; Guryan, Jonathan; Ludwig, Jens – Hamilton Project, 2016
Improving the educational outcomes of economically disadvantaged children is a policy priority in the United States, and yet relatively little progress has been made in recent decades. Education reforms that aim to help economically disadvantaged students often focus on improving the quality with which grade-level material is taught, or the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Improvement, Individualized Instruction, Program Proposals
Minnesota Department of Education, 2016
In 2013, the Minnesota Legislature appropriated $1.763M for Fiscal Year 2014 to create a statewide system for special education paperwork. In 2014, the Legislature greatly expanded the requirements of the system but did not appropriate additional resources to maintain ongoing operation of the system. The 2014 legislation codified the system in…
Descriptors: Special Education, Individualized Education Programs, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Vasaly, Helen L.; Feser, Jason; Lettrich, Matthew D.; Correa, Kevin; Denniston, Katherine J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2014
When the authors were first invited to write these columns, the editors felt it would be an interesting way to give the readers of "CBE - Life Sciences Education" an agency's-eye view of its concerns, workings, and accomplishments. This column is written with that charge in mind. It is intended to inform the community about outreach…
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Science Education
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Hanley-Maxwell, Cheryl; Wycoff-Horn, Marcie – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2017
Adoption of the edTPA as part of new teacher licensing and/or program approval requirements has created heated discussions among teacher educators. Among the discussion topics is the supposition that state-level bureaucrats have been the sole source of the decision to require the edTPA, with little input from the preparation programs. This article…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Teacher Certification, Partnerships in Education, State Agencies
Cortez, Leonardo A.; Latorre, Nubia P.; Hernández, Rubinsten – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2016
Currently, in science teaching and in particular, natural science teaching there are concepts in the school that have a high level of abstraction. Concepts, such as atom, gene, mole and energy, among others are difficult to explain in an understanding manner to students. This situation requires the teacher to design alternative strategies to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Secondary School Science, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
Fought, Eric S. – American Educator, 2015
This article describes a group of dedicated educators who, in the midst of a constant barrage of attacks, dramatically changed the conversation. It is the story of a union that recognized that, in order to bring about the transformation necessary for the betterment of the entire community, its members needed to transform the way in which it…
Descriptors: Unions, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Collective Bargaining
Yan, Bo – Online Submission, 2017
This report documents the second year of implementing Cycle-based Budgeting at Jefferson County Public Schools (Louisville, KY). In addition to aligning another $24.3 million new spending with the district's strategic plan, $20.3 million of existing spending was rolled into the process. Next, the challenges faced by the district to review 105…
Descriptors: County School Districts, Public Schools, Program Budgeting, Educational Improvement
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Carani, George; Carani, José; Strong-Wilson, Teresa – McGill Journal of Education, 2014
"Alphabetização" (literacy) of young children involves a school exclusively devoted to the early years, parental participation, and teachers specialized in early literacy. This is the basis of José Carani's proposal for an "escola familia" in the municipality of Cambé (Brazil). This "Note from the Field," based on our…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Emergent Literacy, Specialization, Program Proposals
Yan, Bo – Online Submission, 2016
This report documents the first-year of implementing Cycle-based Budgeting at Jefferson County Public Schools (Louisville, KY). To address the limitations of incremental budgeting and zero-based budgeting, a Cycle-based Budgeting model was developed and implemented in JCPS. Specifically, each new program needs to submit an on-line budget request…
Descriptors: County School Districts, Public Schools, Program Budgeting, Educational Improvement
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Maguire, Meg – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
This paper is an attempt to think aloud about the current policy proposals in circulation in England that address pre-service teacher education. Rather than dealing with details of policy and points of specificity in practice, the focus of this paper is with how propositions are justified and the overall ways in which meanings are being managed; a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Preservice Teacher Education
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Oduor, Jane A. N. – Multilingual Education, 2015
This article proposes multilingualism in education, where indigenous languages are used alongside English as the media of instruction in schools to eventually promote their use in Kenya. It begins by stating Kenya's language policy in education. It then states the responses given by some primary and secondary school teachers who were interviewed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
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Chitty, Clyde – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2013
Michael Gove has made examination reform a marked feature of his period as Education Secretary in the coalition government, although he has not always found it easy to bring about the changes he feels so strongly about, in the face of widespread opposition from teachers and educationists. This article seeks to analyse the Education Secretary's…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Politics of Education, Educational History, Educational Change
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