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Katherine A. Graves – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2024
Restraint and seclusion are frequently misused in schools, leading to harmful outcomes for students. There is currently no federal law regulating these practices, which has led to inconsistencies in state and district policies. This policy paper aims to provide a brief background on current definitions, case law, and policies and provide teachers…
Descriptors: Punishment, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Court Litigation
Rob Strathdee – International Journal of Training Research, 2024
This article critically evaluates the Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE) reforms in New Zealand which were prompted by a financial crisis in the sector. Despite the best efforts of policy makers, faith in New Zealand's market-led system has been in decline for many years and the RoVE takes the decline in faith in New Zealand's market-led system…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Student Recruitment
Susan B. Neuman; Esther Quintero; Kayla Reist – Albert Shanker Institute, 2023
In recent years, a scientific approach to reading education has gained traction due to the joint efforts of educators, parents, and state leaders. This movement for better reading instruction has helped to fuel a wave of legislation to address widespread and persistent reading deficits of American students. While reading difficulties cut across…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Reading, Reading Instruction, Educational Legislation
Jesus Molina – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Transparency is a fundamental trait that teachers must exhibit in their district and on their campus in order to understand the mission and goals of the district and campus. Educators need proper training and guidance from district and campus leaders to establish a collective efficacy for the benefit of student success. As school districts find…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy, Self Efficacy
Juli L. Taylor; William A. Proffitt; Jake Cornett; Wayne Sailor – Journal of Special Education, 2025
This scholarly review presents a case for transforming special education rather than reauthorizing special education law in its present form and, in doing so, reconceptualizing the inclusion movement to recognize marginalizing influences. A comprehensive review of research, policy reviews, and observations of praxis is undertaken to examine…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation
Jeffrey B. Hall; Lotta Johansson – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
The learning environment of students is a fundamental part of school life, both socially and academically. The ambition to create a school serving the best interests of all children is explored by analysing key concepts encompassing students' right to a healthy school environment, and examining how this discourse has unfolded over five decades in…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Change, School Policy, Educational Policy
Megin Charner-Laird; Stacy Agee Szczesiul – Educational Forum, 2025
The Massachusetts Innovation Schools initiative authorized educators to operate with increased autonomy and flexibility. This descriptive case study examines the early experiences of teachers in one innovation school. We explore the innovations teachers leveraged to build capacity, with particular attention to how they enacted teacher leadership…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Case Studies, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes
Jaimie M. McMullen; Jennifer L. Walton-Fisette; Sue Sutherland – Quest, 2024
Given that standards-based education has been commonplace since the early 1980's, most practicing education professionals cannot remember a time where standards did not exist. Standards have historically served as a mechanism for accountability and academic achievement. In physical education, while not required in initial educational reforms, the…
Descriptors: Standards, Physical Education, Educational Change, Evidence
Aaron M. Pallas; Cami Touloukian – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background or Context: Federal and state reforms have expanded accountability systems for school districts, schools, and teachers. However, there is little evidence that the implementation of new teacher evaluation systems relying on measures of student learning and measures of teaching practice, with differentiated performance categories and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Legislation, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides; John Jacobs; David Lopez; Brenda L. Barrio – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2024
The rights of approximately seven million students with disabilities in the United States are secured via the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Despite these protections, consequential inequities still need to be addressed. Racialized inequities in special education outcomes persist across classifications, placements, and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities
Jihyun Kim; David B. Reid; Sarah Galey – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
In 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law, replacing No Child Left Behind as the statutory education policy of the federal government of the United States (US). Building on prior shifts in accountability policy at the state level, ESSA focused attention and resources on building school leadership capacities. Five years on,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Principals
Xiaodan Hu; Kubra Say; Jeanette Barker; Brennan Carr – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
With its direct impact on admissions procedures and (in)direct impact on campus climate, affirmative action bans can potentially influence student retention. This study uses a national dataset to examine the relationship between affirmative action bans in Oklahoma and New Hampshire and retention rates at public colleges and universities. Our…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Educational Legislation, Educational Change, School Holding Power
Gavin Meyer Furrey – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Amid debates about CRT in education, this paper critically analyses laws that have reportedly sought to expand 'education on racism, bias, the contributions of specific racial or ethnic groups to U.S. history, or related topics' with the hypothesis that there would be little evidence of anti-racist ideology in policies pertaining to curriculum.…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Racism, Critical Race Theory
Erin A. Leach – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Morrill Act of 1862 provided the funding mechanism for the modern land-grant college system. In the over 160 years since its passage, the tripartite land-grant mission of teaching, research, and service has become the most recognizable legacy of the legislation. Recent scholars of land-grant education caution against viewing the history of…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Financial Support
Debbie Klein – Teachers College Record, 2024
The largest system of higher education in the nation, the California Community Colleges (CCC) has disappeared more than one million students in the past 15 years, a 35% decrease in its student body since 2008 despite California's population increase. This dramatic shrinking of the CCC system was not an accident. It was manufactured by a vast…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Philanthropic Foundations, Neoliberalism