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Adam Nir – International Perspectives on Education and Society, 2022
Based on a description of the national features of the Israeli society and educational system, this chapter will briefly describe various attempts conducted since the 1970s to decentralize the Israeli educational system and promote school autonomy. It will focus specifically, on the School-Based Management (SBM) policy, borrowed by educational…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy
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Nir, Adam; Kondakci, Yasar; Emil, Serap – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
Educational policy borrowing has become rather common in our globalised world. However, the literature lacks contextual criteria that may be employed by researchers and policy makers to assess the correspondence of a particular policy to the local context of a borrowing system. Based on a secondary analysis of documents and research reports, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Rossman, Gretchen B.; Wilson, Bruce L. – Educational Policy, 1996
Documents local variability in response to state-mandated reform in Maryland and illustrates the challenges of implementing centralized policy as an educational improvement tool. Discusses a longitudinal project exploring student and staff experience at five diverse high schools. Advises improvement-minded state-level policymakers to be more…
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Graduation Requirements
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Johnston, A. P.; Proulx, Raymond J. – Planning and Changing, 1987
To understand state-local ties involved in state education politics, policy effects and linking mechanisms in the reform-minded Public School Approval mandate in Vermont were studied using semistructured interviews. Results showed minimal involvement from board members, superintendents, principals, and teachers regarding policy formation. All…
Descriptors: Centralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Linking Agents, Participation