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Conceptualizing State Re-Engagement with Public Higher Education
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Barrett J. Taylor; Brendan Cantwell – Educational Policy, 2024
Three trends have characterized state policymaking for higher education in the 21st century: divestment, accountability, and race neutrality. These policy agendas are often justified as an attempt to optimize system efficiency and performance by making institutional actors (agents) responsive to the demands of state officials (principals). In this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Educational Trends, Policy Formation
Improving Understanding of English Learner Education through an Expanded Analytic Framework
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Karen D. Thompson; Ilana M. Umansky; W. Joshua Rew – Educational Policy, 2023
Existing analytic frameworks used to analyze and report on English learner (EL) students have important limitations that complicate the efforts of policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to fully understand this group's experiences and outcomes and respond accordingly. To address this issue, we argue that education agencies should report and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Experience, Outcomes of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
From Zero Tolerance to Student Success in Ontario, Canada
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Winton, Sue – Educational Policy, 2013
Since 2003, Ontario, Canada's high school graduation rates have increased 13% while suspensions and expulsion rates have simultaneously decreased. This article examines relationships between the province's safe school policy and Student Success/Learning to 18 (SS/L18), a policy designed to increase graduation rates. Analyses of teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Policy, Dropouts, Zero Tolerance Policy