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Case Studies Exploring the Application of Entrepreneurial Practices in Public Higher Education
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Kathleen Pilar Blanco Eble – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a qualitative study includes documents analysis and interviews. The study focus is applying entrepreneurial theory to funding public higher education in the U.S. The critical portion of the dissertation focuses on the best practices they have implemented to practice academic entrepreneurialism. The literature review takes a…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Educational Practices, Higher Education, Case Studies
Educators as Optimistic Futurists: A Critical Case Study Investigation into the Takeover of One Middle School in the Southwest United States
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Smith, Matthew David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Advocates of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) often champion a neoliberal agenda of privatization, deregulation, the mass firings of teachers and administrators, and takeovers of schools deemed to be "failing." School takeovers are sanctioned under the No Child Left Behind Act's Corrective Action measures, in which schools…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Reduction in Public Funding for Postsecondary Education in Colorado from 1970 to 2010: A Study Documenting Change and the Resulting Shift from Public to Private Good
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Burnett, Brian D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines and chronicles the change in public funding for postsecondary education in Colorado from 1970 to 2010. Colorado was ranked sixth among states in per capita funding for public higher education in 1970 and declined to 48th in 2010. The study analyzed state appropriations over this time period in five broad categories of spending:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Elementary Secondary Education, Courts