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Dunn, Alyssa Hadley; Sondel, Beth; Baggett, Hannah Carson – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
Guided by perspectives on the sociopolitical contexts of schooling, control of teachers' curriculum and instruction, and teaching of elections, we use findings from a national questionnaire to explore the contexts that shaped teachers' pedagogical decision making following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Our findings reveal that classroom,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Presidents, Elections, Decision Making
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Bradbury, Alice – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
Since coming to power in 2010, the UK Coalition government in power has implemented a range of reforms in relation to assessment at all stages of education in England. This paper focuses on two assessment reforms relating to children aged five and six years old, and considers their evolution from manifesto commitments to practice in classrooms.…
Descriptors: Elections, Accountability, Elementary Schools, Educational Policy
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Yao Sua, Tan; Hooi See, Teoh – History of Education, 2014
The Chinese language movement was launched by the Chinese educationists to demand the recognition of Chinese as an official language to legitimise the status of Chinese education in the national education system in Malaysia. It began in 1952 as a response to the British attempt to establish national primary schools teaching in English and Malay to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Language Planning
Bowen, Daniel H. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2010
The Obama administration's education legacy could hinge on the success of the Race to the Top (RTT) program. Now more than ever, with the Department of Education's recent announcement of the round-two winners, RTT has received its share of praise and criticism. The praise stems from RTT's success in fostering policy discussions about the…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Competition, Federal Aid, Educational Improvement