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Direct linkHendrie, Caroline – Education Week, 2004
In this article, the author presents Howard L. Fuller, a former Milwaukee superintendent who is now a leading national advocate of school choice. His 2002 study found that compared with students in the city's public schools a slightly lower percentage of youngsters in voucher schools in 2001-02 were in "racially isolated" settings. In general, the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Low Income Groups, School Desegregation
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
Peer reviewedLock, 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
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
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
Sopko, Kim Moherek – Project Forum, 2006
Obtaining sufficient funding to cover ever-increasing costs of services for students with disabilities is a critical responsibility for state and district special education directors. Medicaid is a possible source of support for certain school-based services in conjunction with other federal funds. This policy analysis provides a brief background…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Policy Analysis, Special Education, Educational Finance
Motala, Shireen – Perspectives in Education, 2006
Through an analysis of recent quantitative data on equity and school funding in South Africa, this article aims to explicate the patterns and typology of inequality in post-apartheid South Africa, and to deepen our understanding of the construct of equity. It also aims to understand the application of equity in the context of public schooling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Equal Education
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2006
In this article, the author points out the decision of U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III, issued Dec. 20, regarding the constitutionality of Dover, Pa., district's policy that promotes "intelligent design" in public school sciences. In the ruling, Judge Jones not only found the district's policy promoting intelligent design…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Judges, Science Education, Science Instruction
Stromquist, Nelly P. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2006
Global policies today encourage greater access by women to formal schooling but leave aside issues of content and school practices essential to the modification of the social relations of gender. This article assumes a holistic approach and compares the promise of education with its actual contribution to transformative knowledge. It examines why…
Descriptors: Education, Nongovernmental Organizations, Justice, Holistic Approach
Smith, Ian; Brisard, Estelle; Menter, Ian – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2006
In discussion of policy and practice on partnership between higher education providers and other stakeholders in initial teacher education (ITE), one significant approach has been to stress the desirability of developing models which are truly collaborative. This paper first discusses the "collaborative" model within a range of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Education, Educational Trends
Ng, Guat Tin – Social Work Research, 2006
Child care research is traditionally interested in the effects of the child care experience on child development. This article examines a different question: Who shapes state child care policy in the United States? The study, based on 49 states, shows that contrary to expectations, women's political representation, governor's party affiliation,…
Descriptors: Child Care, Public Policy, Child Development, Well Being
Sullivan, James X. – Journal of Human Resources, 2006
This paper examines whether AFDC/TANF asset tests affect the asset holdings of low-educated single mothers. Special emphasis is given to vehicle assets that make up a very significant share of total wealth for poor families. Consistent with other recent research, the author finds little evidence that asset limits have an effect on the amount of…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Ownership, One Parent Family, Mothers
Mendoza, Charlotte – Roeper Review, 2006
National leaders in the field of gifted education have voiced serious concerns regarding the effect of No Child Left Behind on gifted children. This article looks inside classrooms to determine if and how such concerns materialize in the "real world." A survey of selected teachers in various elementary- and middle-school settings in four…
Descriptors: Gifted, Federal Legislation, Teacher Attitudes, Political Attitudes
Whitty, Geoff – British Educational Research Journal, 2006
The relationship between research and policy and practice in education is a long-standing issue in many countries. Focusing on the UK Government, which is responsible for education in England, this paper looks at the criticisms of education research that have been made in recent years by government and related non-departmental public bodies and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Social Problems
