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Download full textErtas, Nevbahar; McKnight, Andrew N. – Critical Questions in Education, 2020
Policy debates about charter schools are often dominated by polarizing emotional narratives. However scholarly attention on narratives in education policy, and especially narratives about charter schools in local contexts, has been limited. The recently developed Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) approach offers guidelines to systematically study…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Public Policy, News Media
Direct linkBlack, Jason Edward – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2012
This essay--a combination of authorial narrative and scholarly critique--examines a grassroots organization's (Friends of Historic Northport) campaign to preserve a site in west Alabama where a pivotal Choctaw-Upper Creek battle took place in 1785. The organization has faced opposition from city planners and business leaders intent on developing…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Action, Citizen Participation, Historic Sites
BILLS, ROBERT E. – 1961
THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO TEST THE CONCEPT THAT A STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WHEN WORKING DEMOCRATICALLY WITH COUNTY AND LOCAL UNITS CAN PROVIDE SOCIALLY DESIRABLE GOALS. PROFESSIONALS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, AND PUPILS FROM TWO COUNTIES WERE GIVEN A BATTERY OF ADJUSTMENT AND VALUES INDEXES, A MEASURE OF…
Descriptors: Administration, County School Districts, Educational Improvement, Local Issues
Newman, Joseph W.; Mahan, Howard F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
Reports the major points, conclusions, and effects of a study--expressly intended for members of the Mobile, Alabama, community--that examined the condition of public education in Mobile County School District. (JW)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Local Issues
Peer reviewedTatalovich, Raymond – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1995
Voters in five states approved referenda making English their official language. The vote is used to assess racial, ethnic, economic, political, and cultural hypotheses. The racial and cultural hypotheses are not validated; the ethnic and class ones are partially supported; and the political hypothesis offers the most compelling explanation. (26…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Data Analysis, English, Ethnic Groups
