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Susan Rutherford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
States recognize that a workforce skill shortage exists and have started educational initiatives to prepare students for workforce readiness and postsecondary success. There is a growing consensus among states that the goal of our education system is to prepare students for a career, college, or the military by providing all students with…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Military Service, Credentials
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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
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Erin J. Heys – Educational Policy, 2025
For decades, policymakers in the U.S. have leveraged accountability policy as a governing tool to lift school performance and close the achievement gap. Accountability become so widespread that it arguably became a "policy paradigm" with the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act in 2002. Yet after just 13 years of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wendy S. Cochrane; Brandon J. Wood – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2025
This study examined intervention fidelity (IF) and the extent to which this essential feature of response to intervention (RtI) was included within artifacts (laws and guidance documents) for states requiring RtI for specific learning disability (SLD) identification. Intervention fidelity is defined as the degree to which an intervention is…
Descriptors: Special Education, Learning Disabilities, Response to Intervention, Fidelity
Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2025
Pursuant to CRS 23-1-141, the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) is required to report on necessary steps and any barriers identified including recommendations for necessary legislative changes to deliver a statewide longitudinal data system in Colorado that connects K-12, postsecondary education and workforce information. This report…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Labor Force
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, 2025
The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, specifies a loan origination fee of 1 percent for all Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans, and a fee of 4 percent for all Direct PLUS Loans for both parent borrowers and graduate and professional student borrowers. Student loan origination fees, the hidden student loan tax, generated…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Fees, Federal Aid
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Laura Kern; Heather Peshak George; Lauren L. Evanovich; Jennifer M. Hodnett; Jennifer Freeman – Exceptional Children, 2024
Restraint and seclusion (R/S) are practices employed by schools to address severe student behavior. Although the use of R/S has been shown to have harmful impact for students, staff, and schools, there is no federal law that addresses its use in schools. A lack of a universal approach leaves each state to determine its own legislation and policy.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Legislation, Discipline, Punishment
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Elizabeth Zagata – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2024
Dyslexia is a word-level reading disability that impacts decoding and encoding skills (International Dyslexia Association [IDA], 2002). The estimated prevalence of individuals impacted by dyslexia varies from 5% to 20% (Phillips & Odegard, 2017). In the United States, the primary legislation overseeing special education is the Individuals with…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Federal Legislation, Equal Education, Educational Legislation
Barbara Daly-Byrnes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Learning to read proficiently is an essential skill needed in both academics and life. Without this skill, one's opportunities are limited socioeconomically, socially, and throughout all daily life. However, there is growing concern that the methodology currently used in many school systems is not preparing children for the rigors of reading in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Level, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Reading Research
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Rachael Gabriel – Arts Education Policy Review, 2024
This article argues that the last three decades of school improvement policies have progressively limited the places and arguments created for arts education in public schools. The result has been a steady marginalization of the arts in the work of school improvement, an exacerbation of opportunity gaps related to access to arts education, and a…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Public Schools, Educational Improvement, Art Education
Sandy Kay Nead – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The public education system is shaped through policy at the federal, state, and local levels with the expectation of implementation at the building level by educational leaders. Education is a right of all individuals and cannot be taken away due to a person's exceptionalities. This right is protected by federal law and enforced by district…
Descriptors: School Districts, Mainstreaming, Educational Administration, Administrator Attitudes
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2024
In order to participate in Title IV programs, institutions must submit annual audits, performed by an independent auditor, to Federal Student Aid (FSA). Proprietary institutions' auditors are required to perform the compliance audit and financial statement audit in accordance with the Government Auditing Standards, Generally Accepted Auditing…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Educational Legislation, Quality Control
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Audrey Nance; Brooklyn Terrill; Rachael Shah – Community Literacy Journal, 2025
What if, instead of viewing legislators as distant or indirect audiences for public writing, we shifted to engage them as community partners, collaborating in a mutually beneficial relationship to develop fresh policy ideas from voices that are often missing in lawmaking? This article tells the story of a partnership between a college composition…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Public Policy, Policy Formation
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M. Ally Keene; Omar Sanchez; MacKenzie Pigg; Deborah Shapiro; Suzanna Dillon – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
Physical educators, including adapted physical educators, are often called upon to advocate for their students with disabilities, their physical education programs, or themselves to affect change in practice or a student's Individualized Education Program. These advocacy efforts are most effective when physical educators are knowledgeable about…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Physical Education, Individualized Instruction, Advocacy
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
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