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Vinovskis, Maris A. – History of Education Quarterly, 2022
This article summarizes and assesses federal K-12 compensatory education policies during the past six decades. It focuses on the centerpiece of that effort, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Related programs such as America 2000, Goals 2000, No Child Left Behind, and Every Student Succeeds Act are discussed. It…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Educational History
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Ford, Brian – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
This article is the third of three on "Sources of Authority in Education." All use the work of Amy Gutmann as a heuristic device to describe and explain the prevalence of market-based models of education reform in the US and the business-influenced Global Education Reform Movement. The other two are "Negating Amy Gutmann:…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship, Business, Educational Change
Spurrier, Alex; Aldeman, Chad; Schiess, Jennifer O'Neal; Rotherham, Andrew J. – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
This brief is part of a four-part series examining the past, present, and future of modern school accountability systems. With the dual forces of the COVID-19 pandemic and the national call to action on racial inequity, the question of how we should measure and hold schools accountable for the impact they have on students is more urgent than ever.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Educational History, Equal Education
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Peurach, Donald J.; Foster, Anna T.; Lyle, Angela M.; Seeber, Emily R. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2021
The aim of this essay is to advance understandings of current efforts to democratize disciplined approaches to educational innovation and improvement in the US and other countries, with a specific focus on the macro-level policy contexts of improvement research in education. In the US, earlier analyses examined these policy contexts from a…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Bourque, Mary Lyn – National Assessment Governing Board, 2009
A history of the achievement levels for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) could be documented in different ways. A chronological history might be the obvious approach, but in the author's view, that could miss the most salient aspects of setting student performance standards on an assessment like NAEP. Further, new initiatives…
Descriptors: Achievement, National Competency Tests, Governing Boards, Grade 8
Eisner, Elliot W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
Criteria, not uniform standards, are appropriate for schools, since neither available resources nor socioeconomic levels are uniform. Education's aim is not to train an army marching to the same drummer. Teachers' challenge is to provide conditions fostering the growth of personal characteristics that are socially important and personally…
Descriptors: Accountability, Criteria, Developmental Stages, Educational Change