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Egalite, Anna J.; Fusarelli, Lance D.; Fusarelli, Bonnie C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2017
Purpose: In December 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, which was a long overdue reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. What is remarkable about this new federal legislation is that it explicitly reverses the decades-long federal effort to more tightly couple the U.S. educational system. While not…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Policy, Administrative Organization, Educational Legislation
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Grissmer, David W.; Flanagan, Ann – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2001
States are the primary policymakers in several important areas of K-12 education. Given their dominant role in educational funding and regulation, states not surprisingly have been the primary initiators of the latest wave of educational reform starting in the mid-1980s. In this paper, the authors sought to test indirectly for the effects of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests
Hua, Shucheng – 2002
The evolution of cadre (political elite and bureaucratic functionaries) education in China from 1949 to the present was evaluated in terms of leadership development and the underlying interests of the Chinese Communist Party as it integrates more fully into the world economy. Historic achievements include: (1) increased knowledge about market…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audits (Verification), Bureaucracy, Centralization