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Dutro, Elizabeth; Valencia, Sheila – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
At the core of standards-based reform are content standards--statements about what students should know and be able to do. Although it is "state" standards that are the focus of much public attention and consume substantial resources, many local school districts have developed their own content standards in the major subject areas.…
Descriptors: State Standards, Educational Change, Alignment (Education), Academic Standards
Qian, Xiaohong; Verhoeven, Jef C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
Since the late 1970's, the Chinese government has been gradually changing its traditional policy for providing higher education and has begun to emphasize the comprehensiveness of the universities. Interdisciplinary cooperation and the synergization of resources are being promoted, and institutional autonomy is gradually increasing. Schools and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Belfield, Clive R. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
U.S. students now have four choices of schooling: public schooling, private-religious schooling, private-independent schooling, and home-schooling. Of these, home-schooling is the most novel: since legalization across the states in the last few decades, it has grown in importance and legitimacy as an alternative choice. Thus, it is now possible to…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, School Choice, Public Education, Private Education
Marchington, Lorrie; Earnshaw, Jill; Torrington, Derek; Ritchie, Eve – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2004
This article uses research commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills to investigate the operation of teacher capability procedures in England. The article examines the role of local education authorities (LEAs) in supporting headteachers and governors in dealing with underperformance by giving support outside of capability procedures…
Descriptors: School Districts, Foreign Countries, Operations Research, Investigations
Marsh, David D.; LeFever, Karen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2004
Is it possible for principals/heads to be effective educational leaders? In this study, we compared the work of principals/heads in two policy contexts. In Policy Context 1, standards for student performance were common and well-established, and authority was devolved to the school level for reshaping the school to meet those standards. In…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational Change, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Administration
Derring, Ann; Brundrett, Mark; Slavikova, Lenka; Karabec, Stanislav; Murden, Brendan; Nicolaidou, Maria – Management in Education, 2005
In many European countries, external as well as internal social, economic and political changes have brought about a marked need for professional training of managerial staff in education. This article is one in a series that springs out of a British Council sponsored conference held in the Czech Republic in 2003, organized jointly by the…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Professional Training, Leadership Training, Foreign Countries
Kraak, Andre – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2004
This article focuses on the impact of several competing discourses on higher education (HE) policy formulation in South Africa in the post apartheid period. It argues that there has never been a strong consensus in the HE community regarding the content of a new policy framework. In particular, the analysis focuses on the limits imposed by the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Policy Formation, Social Change
Bell, Lilian Fleur – Education 3-13, 2005
This article outlines BPRS funded investigations into my own school's and other establishments' practices and processes within data analysis, needs identification and tracking of children's academic progress. It describes the evaluation of my school's then current practices and policies and the use of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Data Analysis
Hill, Jennifer; Waldfogel, Jane; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002
In policy research a frequent aim is to estimate treatment effects separately by subgroups. This endeavor becomes a methodological challenge when the subgroups are defined by post-treatment, rather than pre-treatment, variables because if analyses are performed in the same way as with pre-treatment variables, causal interpretations are no longer…
Descriptors: Child Care, Test Bias, Policy Analysis, Policy Formation
O'Donoghue, Tom; Vidovich, Lesley – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2004
This paper reports the findings of a case study aimed at investigating the forces influencing curriculum policy in one Catholic school in Western Australia (WA). The student-outcomes' focused Curriculum Framework was released in 1998 and is mandated to be implemented in all WA schools by 2004. This has made non-government schools answerable to the…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, State Church Separation
Birtwistle, Tim – Education and the Law, 2004
Is academic freedom an issue in British universities? It should be because there is no legal protection guaranteeing academic freedom. Individuals have some direct statutory references but nothing of substance that actually provides a definitive statement. There are a variety of statutory provisions dealing with what may appear to be aspects of…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Foreign Countries
Van Hoorebeek, Mark – Education and the Law, 2004
"Sony Music v. Easyinternetcafe" has introduced a new facet to the debate concerning the copyright legality of peer-to-peer file transfer. The judgment and subsequent settlement has highlighted that companies offering services that are used to infringe copyright may be held to account in the UK courts. Liability may extend from the…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Copyrights, Computer Software, Court Litigation
Pearce, Diane; Gordon, Liz – London Review of Education, 2005
This paper examines the legislative framework developed in New Zealand over the last 15 years to facilitate greater parental choice in education. The discussion is set within the context of changes to admission practices in a number of education systems to advance the privatisation agenda, and outlines the resurgence of interest in the development…
Descriptors: School Choice, Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, Admission Criteria
Lopez-Goni, Irene – History of Education Quarterly, 2005
The Basque School, as well as a type of school, is an educational phenomenon that emerged and underwent most of its development during the twentieth century. Some initial confusion existed between the terms "Basque school," "bilingual school" and "ikastola," due to the undefined nature of the Basque model of schooling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Regional Schools, Indo European Languages, Spanish Culture
Kraak, Andre – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2005
This article investigates the contribution skills development can make in promoting South Africa's wider socio-economic development. It provides a broad overview of the emerging gap between those who are benefiting from South Africa's transition to democracy and those who are not. Overcoming these worsening social conditions has become a major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Vocational Education, Skill Development