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Howell, William G. – Education Next, 2015
Caught between extraordinary public expectations and relatively modest constitutional authority, U.S. presidents historically have fashioned all sorts of mechanisms--executive orders, proclamations, memoranda--by which to move their objectives forward. William Howell asserts that under President Barack Obama's administration, presidential…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, State Policy
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Gomez, Conrado; Jimenez-Silva, Margarita – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2012
The purpose of this article is to increase understanding of the factors that most significantly influenced the decision made by the Tucson Unified School District to implement the Mexican American Studies program in the late 1990's and early 2000's. This article outlines the process that led to the adoption of the program. The article further…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Mexican Americans, School Districts, Program Implementation
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Gillborn, David – Educational Forum, 2014
Critical race theory (CRT) views education as one of the principal means by which white supremacy is maintained and presented as normal in society. The article applies CRT to two real-world case studies: changes to education statutes in the state of Arizona (USA) and the introduction of a new measure of educational success in England, the English…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Race, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Smith, Mary Lee – 1996
In 1991 Arizona embarked on a program to change schools and make them more accountable for educational achievement. The instrument of reform was an assessment program known as the Arizona Student Assessment Program (ASAP), the most notable feature of which was a performance assessment that was added to an already extensive battery of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Culture, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Morphet, Edgar L., Ed.; Ryan, Charles O., Ed. – 1967
In an effort to direct attention to some of the most significant prospective changes in society by 1980, the Designing Education For The Future Project commissioned 15 papers for its first conference. While attention was directed primarily to changes in society, most authors indicated certain implications for education, and made particular…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Change Agents, Communications, Community Change
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Packard, Richard D. – 1993
Arizona's career ladder teacher incentive program was established by the Arizona State Legislature in 1984 as a component of school restructuring efforts. A comprehensive and long-range developmental evaluation system is being developed for the restructuring program, but the program is at risk of being eliminated due to the negative influence of…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education