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Palucki Blake, Laura – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
This chapter discusses principles that support using data about teaching and learning and offers several strategies particularly well suited for use by institutional researchers at small colleges in helping faculty, staff, and administrators use data on student learning for improvement.
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Educational Principles, Institutional Research, Small Colleges
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Fernández, M. Beatriz – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
Chile shows high inequity and socioeconomic stratification in both K-12 education and teacher preparation. Drawing on the notion of frames, this critical policy analysis examines how teaching, teacher education, and justice were conceptualized in Chile's teacher preparation policies between 2008-2015. It also analyzes the narrative stories…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Policy Analysis, Educational Policy
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Chirichello, Michael; Neihof, James; Orr, Anthony; Cochran, J. Robin; Berry, Buddy; Livingood, Ron; Stafford, Robert – Learning Professional, 2018
A legacy of leadership is more than a bench, as demonstrated by six Kentucky school superintendents who share a common commitment to providing a resource for continuous professional learning for district superintendents. The six leaders met at the end of their doctorate of education program at Northern Kentucky University in May 2015 to contribute…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Success, Change Strategies, Strategic Planning
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Moshavi, Dan; Standifird, Stephen – Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education, 2017
The contestability of ideas is at the heart of a healthy academic institution. As a result, administrators face the challenge of making and implementing difficult decisions in an environment that is designed to explicitly create thoughtful discord. We argue that procedural fairness--explaining how and why important decisions are made--is an…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrative Principles, Administrative Policy, Debate
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Kiliçoglu, Gökhan – Management in Education, 2017
Consistency in statements, decisions and practices is highly important for both organization members and the image of an organization. It is expected from organizations, especially from their administrators, to "walk the talk"--in other words, to try to practise what they preach. However, in the process of gaining legitimacy and adapting…
Descriptors: Integrity, Organizational Theories, Organizational Climate, Organizational Culture
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Mauer, Molly – State Education Standard, 2017
This year's submission of consolidated state plans for implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) revealed two things: New ideas made it to the table, and many people--including those who had not before engaged in education policy conversations--contributed to the process. What is still hazy as the dust settles is whether this…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Administrative Principles
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Anderson-Zavala, Chrissy; Krueger-Henney, Patricia; Meiners, Erica; Pour-Khorshid, Farima – Multicultural Perspectives, 2017
This article argues that prison abolition and education must be thought and practiced together, now more than ever. Drawing on a forum, "Without Walls: Abolition & Rethinking Education" in Oakland, CA to dialogue about strategies to challenge carceral logics in classrooms and communities, this article contextualizes the…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Social Justice, Change Strategies, Discipline Policy
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Moriah, Mishel P. – Management in Education, 2018
Successful school leadership is an issue debated globally, but these discussions do not seem to occur within the context of inclusive education in the Caribbean. Although there have been reports indicating steady progression in educational leadership and inclusive practices within the last decade, no planned, long-term innovations have emerged.…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Qualitative Research, Principals, Secondary Schools
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De Gabriel, Narciso – History of Education, 2018
This article aims to analyse the disciplinary procedures brought against public schoolteachers in Galicia from 1859 until 1910. The article starts with the presentation of the legal basis for the government inquiries and the administrative framework in which they were implemented. Following is an examination of the evolution of the inquiries, the…
Descriptors: Social Control, Conflict of Interest, Professional Identity, Public School Teachers
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Gan, Yang – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
In recent years, general education has developed considerably in Chinese universities, but it still faces many challenges and problems. Among the various negative factors, four problems may be the greatest challenges currently faced by Chinese university general education and ordinary undergraduate education: (1) In the era of massified higher…
Descriptors: General Education, Higher Education, Educational Development, Barriers
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Romanenko, K. R.; Lisyutkin, M. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
This article is aimed at identifying distinctive features of the educational policy of university mergers--their main stages, types, and declared goals. We analyzed cases of university mergers and acquisitions (M&A) from the 1990s to the present, which allowed us to identify and describe four Russia-specific waves of educational policy. Based…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Organizational Change, Universities, Educational Development
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Eacott, Scott – School Leadership & Management, 2017
As one of the central institutions of society, schooling is subject to significant public interest and scrutiny. Fads and fashion successfully developed elsewhere are often rebadged and relaunched in education for the purpose of improvement. Such interventions are often quickly identified as intruders and frequently fade into obscurity, but what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Leadership Styles, Debate
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Kilgore, Wendy; Wagner, Ellen – College and University, 2017
While dual enrollment fills a similar student success niche in both higher and K-12 education, the administrative perspectives of these two entities do not always align. This article highlights the groups' similarities and differences in perspective and proposes implications for practice.
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Success
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Ilyas, Mohammed – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Today organizations have adopted a corporate university model to meet their training requirements, a model that adds value to the business in terms of revenue and profit, improvement in customer retention, improved employee productivity, cost reduction and retention of talented employees. This paper highlights the radical change and an evolution…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Change, Educational Development, Organizational Change
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Geiger, Tray J.; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2017
In this commentary, we discuss three types of data manipulations that can occur within teacher evaluation methods: artificial inflation, artificial deflation, and artificial conflation. These types of manipulation are more popularly known in the education profession as instances of Campbell's Law (1976), which states that the higher the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Data Analysis, Personnel Policy
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