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Cross, Christopher T. – Teachers College Press, 2010
Political insider Christopher Cross has updated his critically acclaimed book to reflect recent education policy developments, including the impact of the Obama administration and "Race to the Top" as well as the controversy over NCLB's reauthorization. Featuring a new introduction and the addition of postscripts for key chapters, this…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Public Policy, Politics of Education, Educational Change
Goettel, Robert J. – 1978
This paper examines how states have responded to the planning, evaluation, and parent participation components of compensatory education programs to promote reform at the local level. Particular attention is given to the interaction between state political culture, legislative requirements, and state education agency leadership style, and their…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
DeBray, Elizabeth; Blankenship, Ann Elizabeth – Peabody Journal of Education, 2013
Congress's role in defining and promoting equality of educational opportunity has evolved over the past 55 years since "Brown v. Board of Education." Most recently, all three branches of the federal government have focused more on equality of educational opportunity for "individual" students rather than for protected classes.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Government Role, Federal Government, Federal State Relationship
Parker, Laurence – Review of Research in Education, 2005
Passed by the U.S. Congress in the spring of 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was one of the most significant and expansive education policy initiatives ever undertaken by the federal government. The main component of the act, Title I, allocated significant resources to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Public Education
Piche, Dianne M. – 1999
This report represents one component of a project to examine how recently or whether enacted federal education reforms, put into place through the reauthorization of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (Improving America's Schools Act of 1994), are being implemented in high poverty schools. The first part of the report…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Deloria, Vine, Jr., Ed. – 1974
As the fourth volume in a five-volume series of position papers on Indian education, this publication presents seven papers relative to the technicalities of the financial, political, and legislative problems of Indian education. Papers are titled as follows: (1) "State Responsibilities for American Indians--Minnesota" (the question of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Educational Responsibility, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government
Muenchow, Susan; Weinberg, Emily – Education Policy Center at American Institutes for Research, 2016
Worried about the large number of young children from low-income families entering school in their communities, many city and county leaders wonder whether quality preschool might help close the school readiness gap. Longitudinal studies of model programs that began decades ago show that these programs improved not only these children's school…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Access to Education, Preschool Education
Atkinson, Becky M. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
The study reported in this article examines how teachers read and respond to their students' Stanford Achievement Test 10 (SAT 10) scores with the goal of investigating the assumption that data-based teaching practice is more "objective" and less susceptible to divergent teacher interpretation. The study uses reader response theory to…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Theories
Carpenter, Bradley Wayne – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Of the numerous public policy debates currently taking place throughout the United States, perhaps no issue receives more attention than the persistence of "chronically" low-performing public schools. As of 2009, approximately 5,000 schools--5% of the nation's total--qualified as chronically low performing (Duncan, 2009d). Certainly,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Policy Analysis, Educational Change, Federal Government
Chu, Morgan – 1974
This paper attempts to study the local politics of compensatory education. It addresses the question of why some neighborhoods appeared to be more politically influential than others over the distribution of compensatory education funds in a large urban school district. Data for this study was gathered from 100 schools and neighborhoods of the Los…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Educational Resources
Borman, Geoffrey D., Ed.; Stringfield, Samuel C., Ed.; Slavin, Robert E., Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers presents the most recent research on Title I federal compensatory education. Building on 35 years of research, development, and practical experience, the book presents evidence of various ways Title I can become a more effective program and instrument for school reform. The nine papers are: (1) "Title I: Its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Access to Education, Accountability
McDonnell, Lorraine M.; McLaughlin, Milbrey W. – 1981
To assess the state's role as an instrument of national education policy, researchers examined four states' responses to federal programs under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. They focused, first, on how states' political and organizational contexts interacted with…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Chubb, John E. – 1981
Evaluating the charge that federal regulation of education is "excessive" entails a political analysis of regulatory problems and of the relative cost efficiencies of providing equal educational opportunity, the goal of much federal regulation. The theoretical framework for this political explanation emphasizes the "implementation…
Descriptors: Administrators, Bureaucracy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Wong, Kenneth K. – 1990
It is argued that both economic concerns and political factors can be synthesized within a new framework to improve city policymaking. This approach is based on a systematic empirical study of policymaking in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) and Baltimore (Maryland) in the 1970s and early 1980s. Numerous government documents and extensive interviews with…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
McDonnell, Lorraine M.; McLaughlin, Milbrey W. – 1982
Focusing specifically on the two largest federal education programs, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142), this study analyzes how states implement federal and state education programs. The book is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 offers background on federal-state…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs