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Download full textPolikoff, Morgan S.; Hough, Heather J.; Marsh, Julie A.; Plank, David N. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
This report examines findings from the 2020 PACE/USC Rossier poll of California voters. The poll represents the views of 2,000 registered California voters across a range of topics from early childhood education to higher education. Based on these results, the authors have identified five key findings: (1) There is growing pessimism about the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Public Schools, Public Opinion, Educational Attitudes
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Direct linkDang, Thi Kim Phung – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
Education reforms worldwide, in both developed and developing countries, address the content of education programmes and/or changes education systems. There are different paths, and different socioeconomic contexts, for those nations which pursue education reform, and Vietnam makes for an instructive example. The country's socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Socialization, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Waggoner, Michael D., Ed.; Walker, Nathan C., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2018
From the founding of Harvard College in 1636 as a mission for training young clergy to the landmark 1968 Supreme Court decision in "Epperson v. Arkansas," which struck down the state's ban on teaching evolution in schools, religion and education in the United States have been inextricably linked. Still today new fights emerge over the…
Descriptors: Religion, Public Schools, Parochial Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Loss, Christopher P., Ed.; McGuinn, Patrick J., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2016
In "The Convergence of K-12 and Higher Education," two leading scholars of education policy bring together a distinguished and varied array of contributors to systematically examine the growing convergence between the K-12 and higher education sectors in the United States. Though the two sectors have traditionally been treated as…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Alignment (Education)
Hinchey, Patricia H. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2010
A course in contemporary education issues is proposed as a valuable general education vehicle for citizenship education. Such a course offers the advantages of being inherently political and interdisciplinary, and relevant to students' life experience. Moreover, such a course would help satisfy the academy's responsibility to inform public debate…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Social Sciences, Cooperative Learning
Ladd, Helen F., Ed.; Goertz, Margaret E., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015
Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, with particular attention to elementary and secondary education. Chapters from the first edition have been fully updated and revised…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Agron, Joe – American School & University, 1997
Discusses privatization of noneducational services to help schools and universities cut costs, and presents survey results from public schools and colleges concerning their level and type of outsourcing. Included are reasons for and against privatization, the most common contracts involved, and indications of whether the outsourcing trend will…
Descriptors: Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Gupta, Atul; Herath, S. Kanthi; Mikouiza, Nathalie C. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2005
Purpose: To measure the degree of implementation and satisfaction level with the outsourcing initiatives from higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach: Uses a survey questionnaire to measure the levels of satisfaction with the institutions' services and the questionnaire was based on six factors that are deemed significant in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Schools, Private Colleges, Privatization
Robinson, Edward H., III; Castenell, Louis A., Jr.; Robinson, Sandra L. – 1999
This paper examines the forces that are shaping the current move toward privatization of teacher renewal, focusing on what forces may precipitate a very different structure for schools, colleges, and departments of education (SCDEs), and the possible options SCDEs have to shape their own future. Today, teacher renewal has metamorphosized from…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education
