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Direct linkSmith, Erica – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2004
This article is a critical review of policy and literature relating to vocational education and training (VET) in schools in Australia. Over the past decade in Australia, VET in schools has grown considerably so that not only are nearly half of senior school students now involved, but also VET in schools represents around 10% of total VET…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Policy Analysis, Education Work Relationship
Jaeger, Paul T.; Bertot, John Carlo; McClure, Charles R.; Langa, Lesley A. – Government Information Quarterly, 2006
The provision of public Internet access and related networked services by public libraries is affected by a number of information policy issues. This article analyzes the policy dimensions of Internet connectivity in public libraries in light of the data and findings from a national survey of public libraries conducted by the authors of this…
Descriptors: Internet, Public Libraries, Access to Information, Information Policy
Karen Hawley Miles; Marguerite Roza – Peabody Journal of Education, 2006
As attention shifts to how districts allocate resources to schools, student weighted allocation has emerged as an alternative to traditional staff-based allocation policies. Student-weighted allocation uses student need, rather than staff placement, as the building block of school budgeting. This article examines how the shift to student-weighted…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Budgeting, Resource Allocation, School Districts
Download full textNagle, Katherine M.; McLaughlin, Margaret J.; Nolet, Victor; Malmgren, Kimber – Educational Policy Reform Research Institute, 2007
This paper is one of four individual case study reports presenting the qualitative findings from a five-year investigation of the impact of accountability reform on students with disabilities in four states, eight districts, and twenty schools. This case study report presents qualitative data collected over a four-year period--2001-2004--from…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Accountability, Case Studies
Lock, Grahame; Lorenz, Chris – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2007
The article argues that the most important trends in the recent metamorphosis of higher education, especially of university teaching and research, cannot be understood without placing them in the context of general developments in political life. Both processes reveal alarming features and there is a link between them. In recent decades a religion…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Free Enterprise System, Public Policy, College Role
Moss, Pamela A.; Piety, Philip J.; Gamson, David; Spillane, James P.; Miele, David B.; Knapp, Michael S.; Copland, Michael A.; Swinnerton, Juli A.; Ikemoto, Gina Schuyler; Marsh, Julie A.; Firestone, William A.; Gonzalez, Raymond A.; Resnick, Lauren; Besterfield-Sacre, Mary; Mehalik, Matthew; Sherer, Jennifer Zoltners; Halverson, Erica; Erickson, Frederick; Little, Judith Warren; Diamond, John B.; Cooper, Kristy; Hickey, Daniel T.; Anderson, Kate T.; Gitomer, Drew H.; Duschl, Richard A.; Carr, Peggy; Dogan, Enis; Tirre, William; Walton, Ebony; Thorn, Christopher; Meyer, Robert H.; Gamoran, Adam; Gee, James Paul; Phillips, Denis C. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2007
Much of the methodological literature currently influential in the education policy community has focused on research studies and assessments intended to support generalizable conclusions about "what works" or what students "know and can do." Until recently, far less attention has been paid to how educators actually interpret and use this…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Yearbooks, Decision Making
National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
In "Market-Based Pay Reform for Public School Teachers"--a paper presented at the National Center on Performance Incentives research to policy conference in February--Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, examines the effects and unintended consequences of the current compensation system for teachers in…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Public Schools, Teacher Retirement, Public School Teachers
Sternheim, Morton M.; Feldman, Allan; Berger, Joseph B.; Zhao, Yijie – Online Submission, 2008
This document reports on the findings of an NSF-funded conference (STEM ACT) on the alternative certification of science teachers. The conference explored the issues that have arisen in science education as a result of the proliferation of alternative certification programs in the United States, and to identify the research that needs to be done…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, National Standards, Teacher Supply and Demand, Science Teachers
Feinberg, Walter, Ed.; Lubienski, Christopher, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2008
Perhaps no school reform has generated as much interest and controversy in recent years as the proposal to have parents select their children's schools. Opponents of school choice fear that rolling back the government's role will lead to profit-driven financial scandals, sectarianism, and increased class and racial isolation. School choice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Urban Schools, Race
Thompson, Paul B. – 1995
Public policy for agriculture and natural resources must change as farming and the use of resources change, but policy also changes to reflect new understandings. The new understandings that will shape future agricultural policy may not come from food producers or agricultural scientists, and may not assume that expanding production is the primary…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Ethics, Evaluation Criteria, Extension Education
McWilliam, R. A.; And Others – 1996
A rationale is presented for the use of many cases in policy analysis. Case study families were selected from nomination by early intervention professionals in three states with differing early intervention policies and procedures. Using rating scales, demographic data, and interview transcripts with 72 families of children receiving services, 7…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Demography, Early Intervention, Family Programs
Kahin, Brian, Ed. – 1993
This volume is designed to provide planners and policymakers with a single volume reference book on efforts to define and develop policy for the National Information Infrastructure. The sourcebook is divided into five sections: (1) official documents; (2) vision statements and position papers; (3) program and project descriptions (all sectors);…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Networks, Federal Government
Copenhaver, John – Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center (MPRRC), 2006
An important federal statute impacting student records is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), enacted to ensure student/parent access to education records and to limit disclosures to others for unauthorized purposes. FERPA Regulations set forth the basic federal records retention and destruction requirements. The records of…
Descriptors: Student Records, Federal Legislation, Confidentiality, Information Policy
Gross, Betheny, Ed.; Goertz, Margaret E., Ed. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2005
American public education faces increasing pressure to demonstrate the competence of all of its students as they progress through the grades and, especially, as students exit their high schools. In response, policymakers are developing sophisticated accountability and support systems in efforts to steer schools toward improved performance. These…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Change, Public Education, Educational Policy
Martin, Nancy; Brand, Betsy – American Youth Policy Forum, 2006
This white paper examines the roles that various levels of government play through legislation, policy, and other initiatives that support quality alternative education programs to reconnect youth to education and the workplace. It raises issues for policymakers at all levels to consider in facilitating the development of expanded alternative…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Nontraditional Education, Accountability, Financial Support
