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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Policy interpretation"”.
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Principal Leadership and the Virginia Literacy Act: From Policy Interpretation to Implementation
… school principals in implementing early literacy policy changes within Virginia's school districts, focusing on the Virginia Literacy Act (VLA). Amid concerns about declining literacy rates, recent legislative reforms mandate evidence-based reading instruction across the state, bringing urgent …
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Capacity-building of school governing bodies in area of policy interpretation and implementation
… of School Governing Bodies (SGBs) in the area of policy interpretation and implementation. The research was carried out in schools under Klein Letaba Circuit in the Mopani Education District, in the Limpopo Province. This was a qualitative study where the researcher used purposive sampling to …
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Contradictory discourses, state ideology and policy interpretation: A feminist evaluation of the Reproductive and Child Health Programme (RCH) in Kerala, India
… the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) policy, as part of a paradigmatic shift in its ongoing population programme. The shift in policy came in the wake of the International Conference for Population and Development, 1994, which had espoused a rhetoric of reproductive health and …
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Privacy Law in Practice: Exploring Challenges to Modern Privacy Compliance
… organizational incentives and difficulty in policy interpretation. We urge organizations to invest in and empower privacy engineers, researchers to explore different design directions, and policymakers to enable greater user recourse against corporations. We hope our work can help enable …
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Thank You For Not Coming? Policy, Politics, and Polity: How Education Stakeholders Interpret Post-Apartheid Education Policy for Immigrants in South Africa-- The Case of Cape Town
… students without due consideration of the policy context that influences the immigrant students' school experience. Consequently, although we are learning more about immigrant student experiences in classrooms in developing countries, to date, we lack information about the policy context in …
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Relationship between Age and Pre-End Stage Renal Disease Care in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients
… to explore the implications of differences in interpretation of funding policies for dialysis services in Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Background: The growing burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a national public health concern, particularly within the aged population. It is …
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The impact of the Disability Discrimination Act Part 4 on Scottish schools
… and 1990s this tension led to wide variation in policy interpretation throughout the UK, yet the SEN policy framework went largely unchallenged until the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA, 1995) launched the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act, also known as Part 4 in 2001 (DDA, 2001). …
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Exploring the Interpretation and Implementation of Migrant Programs: A Migrant Director’s Perspective
… children. This dissertation investigates the interpretation and implementation of policies within the Migrant Education Program (MEP), particularly focusing on the role of Migrant Directors. This study employs a mixed-methods approach, combining a survey distributed to Migrant Directors with …
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Chinese private education reform through the lens of the capability approach
… skills. This thesis applies the tools of policy instruments framework to explore how the 50 key private education reform policy documents targeted these capabilities at the national level using inducements, mandates, capacity-building, system-changing and hortatory policy instruments. …
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A Quantitative Case Study of Transformational Leadership Characteristics of Valley View University in Ghana
… interaction, collaboration, shared leadership, policy interpretation, meeting the needs of foundations, boards, parents, students, alumni, faculty, staff, accreditation boards and the government. Therefore, finding transformational leaders for Valley View University to meet the above leadership …