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Direct linkHermie, Bruce – National Catholic Educational Association, 2022
The voices of school leaders are drastically underrepresented in the formation of educational policy. You may not be a politician and you may not be into politics, but you do know education and the needs of your students and families. This fact alone makes you an asset to policymakers. So, step forward into the light and let your voice be heard.…
Descriptors: School Choice, Instructional Leadership, Educational Policy, Administrator Attitudes
Kotzmann, Jane – Oxford University Press, 2018
A human right to higher education was included in the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which came into force in 1976. Yet the world has changed significantly since the ICESCR was drafted. State legislation and policies have generally followed a neoliberal trajectory, shifting the perception of higher…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, State Policy
Jennings, Jack – Harvard Education Press, 2015
April 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the landmark legislation that has provided the foundation of federal education policy in the United States. In "Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools," longtime policy analyst Jack Jennings examines the evolution of federal education…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy
Batista, Angela E., Ed.; Collado, Shirley M., Ed.; Perez, David, II, Ed. – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2018
The Latinx/a/o population is the largest and fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States, yet higher education attainment for this community is among the lowest. "Latinx/a/os in Higher Education: Exploring Identity, Pathways, and Success" addresses topics relevant to the experience of Latinx/a/o students and professionals and…
Descriptors: College Students, Hispanic American Students, Self Concept, Academic Achievement
Moore, Sarah C. K., Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2014
This book traces the recent socio-historical trajectory of educational language policy in Arizona, the state with the most restrictive English-only implementation in the United States. Chapters, each representing a case study of policy-making in the state, include: (1) SEI in Arizona: Bastion for States' Rights (Karen E. Lillie and Sarah Catherine…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language Planning, State Policy, English Only Movement
Download full textPizzuro, Salvatore – 2001
This handbook is designed to serve as a report on negotiations that took place during the 104th and 105th Congresses that lead to the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) amendments of 1997. In addition, the events and changes in the cultural climate during the 106th Congress and its impact on IDEA is also discussed,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Civil Rights Legislation, Disabilities
McDowell, Douglas S.; Huhn, Kenneth C. – 1976
This book is the 12th in a series of monographs that examine various issues and controversial areas involving collective bargaining and the regulation of labor-management disputes. This volume deals with National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) policy. In particular, it describes and analyzes various NLRB-ordered remedies and discusses many of the…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Court Litigation, Employer Employee Relationship
Finn, Chester E., Jr. – Princeton University Press, 2008
Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from some of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as different as Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan, Finn has also been a high school teacher, an education professor, a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Racial Integration, Educational Change, School Restructuring
Berwitz, Clement J. – 1975
Based on the model used in developing the Wagner College Affirmative Action Plan (Wagner College, Staten Island, New York), the book provides conceptual guidelines and methods for implementing the job analysis approach to Affirmative Action plans. It should be useful to personnel directors, employment counselors, and manpower planners. The book…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Costs, Employer Attitudes, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Richardson, Richard, Jr.; Martinez, Mario – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
"Policy and Performance in American Higher Education" presents a new approach to understanding how public policy influences institutional performance, with practical insight for those charged with crafting and implementing higher education policy. Public institutions of higher learning are called upon by state governments to provide…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Public Policy, Educational Policy
Kloss, Heinz – 1977
This volume, published on the occasion of the American Bicentennial, is based on a revision of a 1963 German-language publication describing and analyzing the phenomenon of cultural and linguistic pluralism in American society. It is part of a series on bilingual education, intended to inform the public about how people have used bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Legislation
Jennings, Edward T., Jr., Ed.; Zank, Neal S., Ed. – 1993
The 16 chapters in this book are intended to stimulate thinking about approaches to dealing with the substance of public assistance policy as it bears on coordination issues, organizational arrangements for policy development and delivery, and processes for building linkages between disparate but related programs. Part I, an introduction, contains…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Employment Services
Zeigler, Harmon; Johnson, Karl F. – 1972
The allocation of education funds by State legislatures, the attitudes of legislators on educational issues, and the interaction of legislators with education lobbyists in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Utah, and Oregon were studied in an attempt to explain how educational resources are allocated in the 50 States and how legislators approach the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Economic Factors, Educational Attitudes, Educational Background
Smith, Richard Dallas – 1976
The struggle between Congress and the executive branch for control of policy in education has created a complex set of organizations, rules, and forces affecting federal policy on education. This struggle has caused Congress to overreact by becoming heavily involved in policy implementation and, to a great degree, has witnessed the executive…
Descriptors: Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
Murphy, Irene L. – 1973
The book, using analytical methods of political science, provides an initial overall study of the formation of national policy on the status of women. It also focuses on factors most likely to influence the future course of the women's rights movement. Concentration is on existing policy from the end of the Johnson presidency on into the women's…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Discriminatory Legislation, Educational Discrimination
