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Carusi, F. Tony – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
Theoretical approaches to policy have started considering the ontological dimensions of policy. Concern for the ontological work performed by policy has introduced questions about what policy is apart from its instrumentality. There exists some research in policy studies proposing the possibility of non-instrumental and ontological features of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Rhetoric, Public Education, Commercialization
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Özek, Umut; Xu, Zeyu – Education Finance and Policy, 2019
The federal Race to the Top competition provided significant impetus for states to adopt value-added models as a part of their teacher evaluation systems. Such models typically link students to their teachers in the spring semester when statewide tests are administered and estimate a teacher's performance based on his or her students' learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Value Added Models, Misconceptions, Attribution Theory
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Campbell, John Wilson; Derrington, Mary Lynne – Journal of Educational Supervision, 2019
Driven by Race to the Top funding and quickly designed and deployed in 2010-2011, a new teacher evaluation policy in Tennessee altered principals' supervisory practices regarding their use of time for observation and reporting, their interaction with teachers, and the methods for giving teachers performance ratings. In addition, student test score…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Change
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Taylor, Amanda – Peabody Journal of Education, 2017
U.S. educational policymakers and equity advocates often frame the negative ramifications of racial inequality in schools in terms of worries about the nation's future global economic competitiveness. This article draws on frame theory (Snow & Benford, 1988) and education organizing theory (Warren & Mapp, 2011) to argue that educational…
Descriptors: Justice, Equal Education, Race, Theories
Aceves, Lorena; Crowley, Daniel Max; Rincon, Brenda; Bravo, Diamond Y. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2022
The main goal of this social policy report is to propose a holistic approach for promoting developmental success among Latinx children and youth. This report highlights the need to 1) redefine success and 2) account for intersectional inequalities. First, the current demographic landscape of Latinx students is presented to showcase the variability…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Change, Hispanic American Students, Child Development
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Bingham, Andrea J. – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Blended learning--a learning model in which online learning is combined with faceto- face instruction to provide a more personalized learning experience for students--has shown enormous growth in recent years. Though many policymakers and educators are optimistic about the potential of blended learning to provide the type of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Charter Schools, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation