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Lee, Jaekyung – 2003
The No Child Left Behind Act requires standards-based accountability for school districts and schools receiving Title I funds. A major component of this policy is to report whether districts and schools are making "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) based on their performance goals. This paper raises questions for rural schools using the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Feasibility Studies, Grade 8
Tripcony, Penny – 2000
Australian policy towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has historically been one of subjugation and acculturation. It wasn't until 1972 that a policy of self-determination for Aboriginal Australians (later to include Torres Strait Islanders) was introduced. The first year that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Policy
DeMarte, Daniel – 1996
This paper offers action concepts designed to be applied to achieve outcomes that benefit all college personnel in their attempts to fulfill their collective roles in strengthening the organizational structure of the college. NILIE (National Initiative for Leadership and Institutional Effectiveness) assesses the effectiveness of community college…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Community Colleges, Educational Policy
Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2005
Several years after the passage of NCLB, there are persistently low-performing schools in every state that face increasingly strong consequences for failing to improve student achievement sufficiently. In particular, schools that fail to make AYP for five consecutive years must engage in restructuring to improve student learning. Districts have…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement
Usher, Alex – Online Submission, 2005
For the first time in the better part of a decade, the idea of making student loans "Income-Contingent" (often referred to as "ICR", which stands for Income-Contingent Repayment) is making a re-appearance on the Canadian policy scene. For those who have long favoured ICRs, this debate will be an opportunity to dust off their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Policy, Financial Policy
Thurlow, Martha L. – National Assessment Governing Board, 2004
States have taken a variety of approaches in the development of their alternate assessments and the policies and procedures that support them. This has resulted not only in alternate assessments that differ from state to state in their characteristics, but also in variations in the characteristics and percentages of students who are targeted for…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, State Regulation, State Standards, Comparative Analysis
Indiana State Commission for Higher Education, Indianapolis. – 1998
This Commission for Higher Education document concerns the approval of the Policy for Delivering Degree Programs Through Distance Education Technology. It opens with the staff recommendation that the Commission approve the Policy, considering the recent technological developments altering distance education environments. The background information…
Descriptors: Degrees (Academic), Distance Education, Educational Policy, Educational Technology
Campbell, Nancy Duff; Entmacher, Joan; Boggess, Jacquelyn; Pate, David – 2000
Low-income mothers and fathers often share a desire to support their children, but current government policies may pit parents against each other, often to the detriment of their children. This report sets out a shared public policy agenda for newly elected leaders at all levels of U.S. government as part of the Common Ground Project, designed to…
Descriptors: Child Support, Child Welfare, Children, Childrens Rights
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1997
This volume brings together the reports and discussion connected with a roundtable convened by the Departments of Education and Labor and the National School-to-Work Office to discuss issues surrounding the conduct of a net impact evaluation of school-to-work. After an introduction that summarizes the approach and intentions of the School-to-Work…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Research, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research
Craciun, Kirstin; Ziebarth, Todd – 2002
Takeovers, charter schools, and P-16 systems are three issues in educational reform that have recently received a great deal of attention. For each of these issues, this report examines state activity in 2001 and early 2002, explores recent research findings, and offers key questions for state policymakers to consider. Until recently, state laws…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Charter Schools, College School Cooperation, Decision Making
Moss, Peter – 2000
This paper addresses, in two parts, some issues in the staffing of early childhood services. Taking an international perspective, the first part of the paper discusses: (1) the structure of the early childhood workforce; (2) the social construction of the early childhood worker; (3) gender; (4) staff to child ratios; (5) processes of transition in…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Day Care
Lichter, Daniel T.; Jensen, Leif – 2000
This paper documents changing rates of poverty, sources of income, and employment among rural female-headed families with children, focusing on the effects of welfare reform. Data from the Current Population Survey show that from 1989 through 1999, especially since passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Fatherless Family, Feminization of Poverty
Arnold, Michael – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2003
Rural education scholars may be biased advocates of small schools or they may accept the values of the scientific community. An analysis of a rural Pennsylvania district's failure to receive Reading First funding did not provide enough information to determine why the proposal was rejected. The article's arguments about "privatization"…
Descriptors: Bias, Criticism, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education

Fitz, John; Beers, Bryan – Comparative Education, 2002
British government policies promoting public-private partnerships enabled the privatization of failing schools. In the U.S., the private sector has drawn upon a political network of well-financed institutions to advance privatized education, most recently among charter schools. Privatization has not yet been very successful, but promises to be…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Comparative Education, Corporations, Educational Administration

Psacharopoulos, George – Comparative Education Review, 1986
Describes various mistakes or disasters in national educational planning involving international comparisons, manpower forecasting, vocational "relevance," and government intervention and financing. Advocates less reliance on vague "macroplanning" and more emphasis on specific policies addressing particular educational issues and on…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Finance, Educational Planning