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50 Years of ERIC
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Social Traditionalists, Religious Conservatives, and the Politics of Outcome-Based Education: Pennsylvania and Beyond.
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Boyd, William Lowe; And Others – Education and Urban Society, 1996
The controversy surrounding Pennsylvania's efforts to implement its version of outcome-based education (OBE) is a cautionary tale of contemporary public school reform. Religious conservatives have succeeded in undermining OBE in Pennsylvania, and their ambition is to affect the direction of public educational policy nationwide. (SLD)
Descriptors: Conservatism, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Outcome Based Education
Introduction: The Changing Politics of Changing Communities.
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Boyd, William Lowe – Education and Urban Society, 1979
This article discusses the impact that declining school enrollments have had on changes in school politics. (EB)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment, Educational Policy
Educational Policy Making in Declining Suburban School Districts: Some Preliminary Findings.
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Boyd, William Lowe – Education and Urban Society, 1979
Data from a study of eight Chicago suburban elementary school districts are used in this paper to assess the impact that declining enrollments and funds have had on the educational policies of suburban school districts. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Declining Enrollment, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Afterword: The Management and Consequences of Decline.
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Boyd, William Lowe – Education and Urban Society, 1983
Stresses the need for aggressive, farsighted management of decline and for more Federal and State aid to local school administrators to combat the negative effects of school closures and retrenchment, and to ensure that retrenched school systems still serve children effectively. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Conflict, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education