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Principals' Sense-Making of Resource Allocation within a National Reform Implementation
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Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Tamir, Emanuel; Schechter, Chen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2021
Through a sense-making lens, this qualitative study explores high school principals' considerations while they perceive and enact additional resources within a national reform implementation. Principals' allocation of resources, especially as part of a national reform, is a complex matter for schools' effectiveness in an era of accountability.…
Descriptors: Principals, Resource Allocation, Educational Change, Program Implementation
The State of School Education: One Year into the COVID Pandemic
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OECD Publishing, 2021
In 2020, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries/economies were locked out of their schools. Students everywhere have been faced with schools that are open one day and closed the next, causing massive disruption to their learning. With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic still raging, many education systems are still struggling, and the situation is…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Educational Trends
What to Do with the Bounty? Organizational Patterns for the Implementation of Resources Allocated by the Courage to Change (Oz Letmura) Reform
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Tamir, Emanuel; Shaked, Lea – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
The research investigated the way in which school administrations implement resources provided by Israel's "Courage to Change" reform. The uniqueness of this reform stems from the fact that the allocated resources come in the form of "weekly instruction time" rather than finance, and the school management needs to decide how to…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Program Implementation, Educational Change, School Administration
Neo-Liberalism and Practices of Selection in Arab Education in Israel: Between Control and Empowerment
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Pinson, Halleli; Agbaria, Ayman K. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2015
Similar to other national contexts, in Israel since the 1980s we have witnessed the emergence of neo-liberal policies in education. However, very little attention has been given to the ways in which they affect the school level and even less attention has been given to the impact of these policy changes on Arab schools in Israel. This article…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Arabs, Educational Policy
A New Model for Equitable and Efficient Resource Allocation to Schools: The Israeli Case
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BenDavid-Hadar, Iris; Ziderman, Adrian – Education Economics, 2011
This paper sets out a new budget allocation formula for schools, designed to achieve a more equitable distribution of educational achievement. In addition to needs-based elements, the suggested composite allocation formula includes an improvement component, whereby schools receive budgetary allocations based on a new incentive measure developed in…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Budgeting, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
The Reconstruction of Palestinian Education: Between History, Policy Politics, and Policy Making.
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Mazawi, Andre Elias – Journal of Education Policy, 2000
Reviews four publications comprising a vivid testimony to current dilemmas and challenges facing reconstruction of Palestinian education. Critical policy issues have arisen concerning the broader meanings attached to educational resources and their relation to economic and civil opportunities. National-collective issues have eclipsed equity and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education