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Showing 1 to 20 of 341 for “"Educational Policy"”.
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Neoliberalization of educational policy discourses in Chile
… neoliberalism or to the language used to reshape educational policies in market terms. Building upon literature which emphasizes neoliberalism’s fluid nature and historic contingency and recognizes the struggles and compromises through which its meaning is both reconfigured and reasserted in …
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Private Sector Training, Vocational Education, and Educational Policy
Educational policy is a complex endeavor, encompassing a loose conglomeration of public and private appendages. Difficulties are encountered in this field in part as a result of a lack of clear articulation of educational goals in a changing post-industrial society. This thesis is a descriptive and …
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Yuli's story: Using educational policy to achieve cultural genocide
… on Yuli’s experience as she traversed the educational system offered to her in order to complete eighth grade, earn her high school diploma and be accepted to college. Her narrative gives insight into what she lost, personally and culturally, as a result of the operational delinquency of a …
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Implementing State Educational Policy in Iowa: Voices from the Field
The problem: The problem of this qualitative policy implementation study was to describe and analyze what implementers understood as the intent of Iowa's Accountability for Student Learning Act as well as the processes and strategies used by small public school districts to implement this policy. …
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Policy communities and policy networks : educational policy making in Saskatchewan
The purpose of the study was to describe the policy community within which educational policies are currently developed in Saskatchewan. The study used the policy-community/ policy-network conceptual framework of Atkinson and Coleman (1985) and Coleman and Skogstad (199Gb). The assumption was made …
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Basic Education in Zambia: A Study in Educational Policy Development
… a means of bringing about significant education policy changes which reflect the problems within the local political economy.
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School Improvement Research and Future Educational Policy Efforts in Zimbabwe
… in Zimbabwe. It reviewed and analyzed current educational practices, policy discussions, and actions by the Zimbabwean government. New educational initiatives from research in the United States were directed to establishing more effective schools and implementing plans for improvement. Three …
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Educational Policy Development For Closing The Black And White Achievement Gap
… Z. To that end, I argue for a comprehensive policy implementation plan that includes the critical issues District Z is facing, their identified needs, the pros and cons of implementation, and assessment and accountability measures.</p>
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Examining the Association between Teacher Political Efficacy and Educational Policy Engagement
… important to examine the teacher’s role in the educational policy making process. Currently, there is little research on Georgia’s educational policy systems. This study analyzed relevant variables to determine predictors of teacher participation. A 30 question instrument designed to measure …
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Change in Educational Policy and Practice Through Online Communities of Practice
<p>The internet continues to provide new and interesting solutions to age-old problems; this paper explores how education could benefit from online solutions. The history of public education in the U.S. is fractured at best, based on a system reliant on state and local control. As new legislation …
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Possessive Investment: California, 209 and the Reconstruction of Racist Educational *Policy
"This study is concerned with the development of educational policy in the State of California. The California Civil Rights Initiative (Proposition 209), as anti-affirmative action legislation, was composed and implemented with the intent to limit the access of African-American and Latino/a …
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An Application of Critical Theory to Educational Policy Making in Korea
… and fostering the democratization of Korean educational policy-making. To this end, this study attempted to apply critical theory, specifically Jurgen Habermas's critical theory, to educational policy-making in Korea.
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Ideological context of American educational policy in occupied Korea, 1945-1948
When the United States occupied Southern Korea and found themselves in the position of having to justify their use of force, they claimed that their actions are educative, liberating, and temporary. Three years of Korean education under the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) …
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Rainbow Promises, Uneven Promises: Framing LGBTQIA+ Educational Policy and Possibility in Education
… streams theory, this study conceptualizes policy implementation as a dynamic and socially constructed process influenced by power, ideology, and institutional context. Data were collected through interviews, document and artifact analysis, and observations, with analysis that used a …
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The impact of educational policy changes upon elementary school teachers' instructional practices
… change brought about by continuous series of new educational policies that teachers are tasked to implement within their classrooms. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine how five elementary school teachers experienced and responded to educational policy changes that influenced …
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The Filipino in obsolescence: citizenship and educational policy reform in the Philippines
… and entrepreneurship tracks. Within this educational policy reform, this paper examines how the Philippine state expresses, constitutes, and legitimizes Filipino citizenship; makes sense of citizenship by tracing the transformation of Filipino citizenship from colonial to the post-colonial …
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Educational policy and literacy learning in an ESL classroom: constraints and opportunities
… dissertation was a qualitative case study of an educational program for English Language Learners (ELL) at an elementary school in a small city in the Midwest. This case study investigated how language ideologies influence the constraints and opportunities for the planning and execution of this …
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The Scottish Tertiary Education Advisory Council : a case study in educational policy-making
… the first comprehensive analysis of a particular policy-making process, the Scottish Tertiary Education Advisory Council's work in the mid '80s on the future strategy of higher education in Scotland; and, secondly, to use the STEAC process as a case study to test the validity of three models of …
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Meritocracy: A Socio-Educational Policy Conundrum Transversing Selected Works of James Bryant Conant
… of meritocracy and their influences on educational policy enactment. I conducted specific archival research on a portion of the personal papers of James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) on the Campus of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, NJ. I also conducted one personal …
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