There have been calls to increase the autonomy of higher education institutions in Europe for a number of years. They have been counterbalanced by demands for increasing accountability and a European quality assurance system. In London in 2007, the European ministers of education decided to implement a European register of accredited quality…

As Congress considers reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, it should recognize the need for fundamental reform of federal K-12 education policy, which since 1965 has followed a path of greater federal control of education, the proliferation of bureaucracy, higher administrative costs, and new federal programs. Under the…

This paper presents the most notorious decentralization and privatization policies of education delivery included in the 1995-2005 education reform plan and briefly explains some of the factors justifying their existence, potential success, and possible limitations. It also examines the capacity of a privatization strategy, contracting…

In response to calls for reform, the secretary of education has reevaluated a variety of federal programs, including bilingual education. The secretary has proposed legislative and regulatory changes which are discussed. (MT)

The author argues that the secretary of education's proposed changes involving bilingual education, along with looming budget cuts, threaten to roll back educational opportunities for language-minority children. (MT)

As with so many guides for school improvement, the U.S. Department of Education's March 2006 Non-regulatory Guidance document entitled, "Designing Schoolwide Programs," continues to marginalize the essential role of student/learning supports. This brief report analyzes the guidance document with a specific focus on how to ensure Title I schoolwide…

The author states that special education and school psychology were established concurrently, with psychologists providing psychometrics to accommodate exceptional children's education; that the conjunction prevailed until passage of P.L. 94-142; and that ensuing educational complexity requires educators to become committed to guided, planned…

Political changes in Poland are affecting the educational sector. There is a need for regulation in adult education, and the polycentric model is shifting government responsibility for education from financial support to political and moral oversight. (SK)

Reviews three sometimes overlapping versions of educational reform: the professionalization of teachers; over-regulation of teachers' work; and the deregulation of schooling. Argues that over-regulation and deregulation often work together as part of a larger market-oriented strategy for educational reform that seeks to limit the professional…

This report is based on the collective research of seven regional education laboratories related to the federally funded Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration program. The participating laboratories were the Appalachia Education Laboratory (AEL) in partnership with the Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP) at the University of…

The purpose of this article is to reexamine the 40 years of educational planning experience in Turkey comparatively with the educational planning experience in the international arena. Turkey has used educational planning since 1963. Planning in general has been defined as a decision-making process to reach certain goals in the future. This study…

This volume collects several case studies on the relationship between government and higher education in developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In particular these studies ask whether specific forms of government regulation help to solve the crisis of higher education in the developing world better than other forms of regulation.…

Discusses how recent regulations, standards and litigation have resulted in additional important constraints upon the design process. Presented are corresponding new objectives and areas of study in engineering design education. (WB)

A discussion of recent movements toward reform in intercollegiate athletics concludes that college trustees must support their presidents in the reform effort, because allowing the situation to remain as it is will lead inexorably to regulation by the courts of federal government. (Author/MSE)

Federal policy has been unsuccessful in achieving some of its goals for several reasons, including viewing implementation as an act rather than as a process and assuming that organizations have uniform capacity and willingness to implement policy. A strategy of differential treatment that matches implementing organizations' characteristics is…