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Eden, Max – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
In the first half of 2021, 26 states introduced--and 12 passed--bills colloquially labeled "critical race theory (CRT) bans." The bills introduced to date can be grouped into three categories: prohibitions against compulsion, against inclusion, and against promotion. The prohibition against promoting CRT, first introduced in the North…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Racial Bias
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Sampson, Carrie; Diem, Sarah – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
Leaders of education policy continue to decentralize school districts, particularly in predominately large urban districts, despite mixed results from this reform. In this article, we seek to explain how decentralization came to fruition through the policymaking process in one of the largest and most diverse districts in the United States that…
Descriptors: School Districts, Administrative Organization, Leadership Training, Educational Policy
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Shaffer, Michael B.; Ellis, John G.; Swensson, Jeff – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2018
"Getting poor kids out of failing schools" sounds like an altruistic cause most Americans support. However, one policy mechanism utilized to achieve that result, parental choice vouchers, has a checkered past. This descriptive analysis explores the policy-bubble created when state legislators eschewed their constitutional responsibility…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, State Legislation, Legislators, Politics of Education
Skinner, Rebecca R.; Loane, Shannon S. – Congressional Research Service, 2016
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was initially enacted in 1965 (P.L. 89-10). Since then, there have been 13 major reauthorizations of the ESEA, with the most recent reauthorization occurring in 2015 with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, P.L. 114-95). This report provides information on the votes taken in the House and Senate…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Legislators
Kim, Joowon – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation is comprised of three studies that investigate the implications and determinants of public funding for universities. The first chapter lays down the foundation for the other two studies. I discuss how state-level policies, as determined by legislators, represent a pivotal component of firms' non-market strategies that have direct…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Support, Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Center for Children's Initiatives, 2020
This briefing guide offers the latest data on the availability of child care and pre-K by legislative district as well as new documentation on affordability by county and median salaries for early childhood educators. Today 9 out of 10 families cannot afford quality child care. Further 4 out of 5 four-year olds outside of New York City have no…
Descriptors: Budgets, Child Care, Educational Quality, Preschool Children
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Charles D. Carpenter – English Journal, 2020
The UK's "Prime Minister's Questions"--a television program that shows parliamentary proceedings and banter between House of Commons members--can be a free, real-world resource for rhetorical analysis opportunities. In this article, the author presents the inherent value of these sessions in the classroom as a means of creatively…
Descriptors: Public Officials, Television, Programming (Broadcast), Discourse Analysis
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Burke, Meghan M.; Sandman, Linda; Perez, Beatrize; O'Leary, Meghann – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2018
Although parents of children with disabilities have forged systemic changes for individuals with disabilities, little is known about the phenomenon of legislative advocacy (LA) including methods and barriers. In this United States-based study, 49 parents of individuals with disabilities participated in focus groups about LA reporting both positive…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Disabilities, Parent Attitudes, Legislators
US House of Representatives, 2024
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development of the Committee on Education and the Workforce exposing the dangers of the influence of foreign adversaries on college campuses. Opening statements were provided by: (1) Honorable Burgess Owens, Chairman, Subcommittee on Higher…
Descriptors: National Security, Hearings, Public Officials, Administrator Attitudes
Koger, Marsha K. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the attitudes, subjective norms, and behavioral intentions of Maryland state legislators regarding a tuition-free community college education in the State of Maryland. All members of the Maryland House of Delegates and the Maryland State Senate were surveyed. The theoretical lens, which guides…
Descriptors: Legislators, State Officials, Attitudes, Community Colleges
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Campos-Domínguez, Eva; Esteve-Del-Valle, Marc; Renedo-Farpón, Cristina – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2022
Democracy is based on individuals' ability to give their opinions freely. To do this, they must have access to a multitude of reliable information sources (Dahl, 1998), and this greatly depends on the characteristics of their media environments. Today, one of the main issues individuals face is the significant amount of disinformation circulating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Political Attitudes, Content Analysis
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Hughes, Ryan E.; Thomson, Sarah L. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2016
Provide your students with handwritten letters from three young students to then U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, written a few months prior to the first celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 1970. These primary source historical documents can be a part of upper elementary students' exploration of civic activism in the service of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Elementary School Students, Civics, Grade 5
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Dodson, Elizabeth A.; Geary, Nora A.; Brownson, Ross C. – Health Education Research, 2015
Research can inform policymakers of public health issues and shape policy decisions, hopefully benefiting public health; thus, improving dissemination of research to policymakers is important for developing effective public health policies that improve health and health equity. However, the utilization of research among policymakers is often not…
Descriptors: Legislators, Information Sources, Information Utilization, Interviews
Ammons, Willard Hazley, III – ProQuest LLC, 2019
With state legislatures across the nation decreasing funding in higher education, many higher education administrators are seeking new and creative ways to increase funding and decrease waste in colleges and universities. Since the Great Recession, very little research has been conducted toward the Alabama Legislature and its important link to…
Descriptors: State Government, Legislators, Educational Attitudes, Higher Education
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Steudeman, Michael J. – History of Education Quarterly, 2018
The nineteenth-century debate about the role of the US Bureau of Education was marked by negotiations between the civic republican language of antebellum common school advocacy and a social scientific language of educational professionalism. To advance this argument, this essay traces how members of Congress defined, criticized, and delimited the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Legislators, Government Role, United States History
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