The adoption of the principle of Education for All has catalyzed major efforts in special education throughout the world, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has developed educational policies to meet the special education needs of students since the late 1960s. Despite these efforts, there is no current policy in the KSA that provides specific…

Numerous educational reforms have been initiated in Serbia since 2000. The aim of this study was to examine education policymaking in Serbia in order to provide policymakers and stakeholders with recommendations on how to minimize pitfalls and increase success of future educational endeavors. In the study, we utilized the education policy cycle…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate decision making in the Common Core State Standards Initiative as the change process moved from research, development and diffusion activities to adoption of the Common Core State Standards by the states. A decision-oriented evaluation model was used to describe the four stages of planning, structuring,…

In April 2008, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) contracted with the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) to facilitate a series of regional workshops and provide technical assistance to strengthen efforts to improve college readiness for all students. This final report summarizes these activities…

Suggests that the futures perspective should be applied to the analysis of national educational policy so that the aims, goals, and objectives of youth and the many environments that will surround their lives in the future will be consciously brought to bear on the choice of educational policies. (Author/JH)

The report attempts to analyze the political feasibility of career education currently through analysis of existing legislation and consultation with experts and key policy officials. The most significant Federal legislation for career education has been Title X of the Education Amendments of 1972 providing State grants for the development of…

Activities of an internal review process at the University of Texas Medical Branch have resulted in improvements in instructional procedures and structural changes in the medical school's approach to educational planning, implementation, and evaluation. (Editor/LBH)

A case study of the process of policy revision at a state university is used to explore the relationship between content and context of curriculum. Basic concepts and approaches from the field of organization theory were applied to the analysis of curriculum revision. (DF)

Author has just completed his third spell at the Department of Education and Science. Here the ex-Minister of State looks at some of the policy initiatives which he had been involved in during the past two years. (Editor/RK)

In lesser developed countries, interest has been growing in the role evaluation plays in the improvement of media-based education programs. Such programs include the use of television or radio to communicate a useful message to students, the general populace, or a particular group (such as mothers or small farmers). The message to be communicated…

The linkage of planning and evaluation in vocational education is a conceptual as well as an operational phenomenon. In an ideal situation, planning and evaluation are not two distinct sets of activities but rather interrelated aspects of a dynamic and inquiring system with the overall mission of reconciling policy design and policy action.…

In March 1974, the Regents approved for planning purposes a new University Academic Plan for 1974-78. That plan contained significant changes from the prior University Academic Plan of 1969, primarily because of the substantial downward shifts in state and national population growth rates. Hundreds of individuals--faculty members, students,…

Colorado's Public School Finance Act of 1988 directed all public school districts to implement state goals for improving achievement, graduation, and attendance rates. Districts and individual schools were required to develop accountability committees involving parents, staff, students, and community members in planning and evaluating school and…

The study focuses on the purpose and role of industrial arts in Colorado with particular attention to its relationship with vocational education. The study was based on: (1) a review of current literature (presented in Volume 2, which is not available for copyright reasons); (2) data collected from industrial arts, trade and industrial education,…

A discussion of secondary education curriculum reform, particularly in Eastern and Central Europe, examines potentially conflicting concerns characterizing the current reform debate: stronger national policies alongside calls for curricula responsive to local needs; broad versus core curricula; central versus decentralized control of assessment;…