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Aspen Institute, 2021
The report contains real-world, proven school climate strategies to guide policymakers in building a comprehensive and coherent state-wide approach for improving school climate. It features 12 recommendations linked to existing state policy examples policymakers can use to build a comprehensive, coherent state-wide approach for improving school…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, School Policy, State Policy, Policy Formation
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2021
The "IDRA Newsletter" serves as a vehicle for communication with educators, school board members, decision-makers, parents, and the general public concerning the educational needs of all children across the United States. The focus of this issue is "Fair & Effective Education Policy." Contents include: (1) What Students…
Descriptors: Government Role, Federal Government, Educational Policy, Public Policy
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2021
This report informs The Hon Alan Tudge MP, Minister for Education and Youth; the Parliament of Australia; the Australian higher education community; and the general public about the performance of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA or the agency) during the financial year ending 30 June 2021. Prepared according to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions)
Campaign for College Opportunity, 2021
The value of a college degree continues to rise. A bachelor's degree in particular provides unrivaled economic and health benefits not just for the individual earning the degree, but for the entire state. Therefore, it is not surprising to see growing demand for a college education coupled with growing eligibility for California's public…
Descriptors: State Universities, Access to Education, College Admission, College Bound Students
Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2021
Nebraska is committed to measuring its progress toward achieving the major statewide goals through national comparisons and institutional peer comparisons. It is the aim of the Comprehensive Plan that, when rank order is appropriate, Nebraska will rank among the ten best states in national comparisons, and individual public institutions will rank…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, High School Graduates, College Attendance, High School Equivalency Programs
National Education Association, 2021
Over the course of the last month, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) have come together to define the essential elements that they believe are necessary to effectively understand and address the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted students' academic and developmental experiences.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Needs, At Risk Students
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Keep, Ewart – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2015
This article explores the governance structures that cover vocational education and training (VET) in England. The English VET system is highly fragmented, complex and unstable, and has tended to oscillate between centralised command and control, and attempts at marketisation. Its governance arrangements reflect this situation. The various…
Descriptors: Governance, Vocational Education, Marketing, Models
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Carasso, Helen; Gunn, Andrew – London Review of Education, 2015
Conservative and Liberal Democrat policies for higher education funding in the 2010 general election campaign offered voters a stark choice--with one party willing to consider raising the cap on undergraduate fees, while the other publicly committed to removing any student contribution. It is not surprising therefore that this was an area in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
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Michel, Sandrine – London Review of Education, 2015
After fifty years of almost continuous economic growth in Thailand, it is now possible to reevaluate the developmental process of the education system. Until now, the structural indicators of education development that have been mainly used are the level and pace of the increases in public expenditure on education, the effect of increasing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Educational History, Statistical Analysis
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Hill, Catharine – Journal of Educational Issues, 2015
Neoclassical economists make the case for profit seeking firms in the private sector because they supply goods and services efficiently, meeting consumer demand at the least possible price and the highest quality. The government also supplies some goods and services directly, and also has made provisions for non-profit firms to do so, recognizing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Sector, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
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Narodowski, Mariano; Moschetti, Mauro – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
During the second half of the twentieth century, the Argentine education system went through a clear process of privatisation expressed in the increasing enrolment and state funding of the private sector. Especially in the 1990s, when the country implemented neoliberal economic policies, the academic literature had found in neoliberalism (in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Privatization, Neoliberalism
Ford, Terry – NAMTA Journal, 2015
This fairytale-come-true began with an idealistic public school teacher just out of college who lived in the neighborhood of her students. In stages, working with a community organizing group consisting mainly of concerned parents, Terry Ford founded what is now called Lumin Education, a network of campuses serving more than six hundred children…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Profiles, Montessori Method, At Risk Students
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Phair, Heleanna; Davis, Geraldine – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
In 2013 funding was introduced to support disadvantaged two-year-old children to attend early childhood settings in England. This study explores the experiences of four early childhood settings as they worked with these funded children for the first time. Using interviews and observations within the settings, findings demonstrate some adjustment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
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Quinn, Rand; Steinberg, Matthew P. – State Education Standard, 2015
Sooner or later, talk of closing achievement gaps turns to education finance--specifically, fixing widespread disparities in school funding within individual states. The difference between the resources that a district needs to educate all students and the amount the district actually spends is called an adequacy gap. The availability and use of…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, State Aid, Achievement Gap
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MacLachlan, Effie S.; Caplan, Avrom J. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2015
Securing funding for undergraduate research activities is critical to a vibrant program. Strategies for obtaining funding are described in this chapter.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Educational Research, Educational Resources, Educational Change
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