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Leider, Christine Montecillo; Colombo, Michaela W.; Nerlino, Erin – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
English learners are entitled to participate meaningfully and equally in educational programs. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) includes provisions to ensure success for all students, including English learners. However, the federal government does not prescribe specifically how states should meet these provisions; instead, it is the…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, State Policy, Administrative Organization, Teacher Effectiveness
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Graue, M. Elizabeth; Wilinski, Bethany; Nocera, Amato – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
The opposing principles of local control and increased standardization are a prominent tension in the United States' education system. Since at least the early 1990s, this tension has taken shape around the accountability movement, defined by educational reforms that hold schools, teachers, and students accountable for performance on new…
Descriptors: School District Autonomy, Accountability, Case Studies, Preschool Education
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Huddleston, Andrew P. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
The author uses Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital, and habitus to analyze how students, parents, teachers, and administrators are responding to Georgia's test-based grade retention policy in reading at one Georgia elementary school. In this multiple case study, the author interviewed, observed, and collected documents regarding ten fifth…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, State Policy, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Teachers