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Paige L. Moore; Ratna Okhai – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
This simulation provides public administration, public policy, and management students and practitioners with an immersive disaster scenario. The table-top exercise provides an example of how municipal leaders can prepare for disaster scenarios and the importance of embedding social equity into disaster response. Additionally, it provides an…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, American Indians
Library Journal, 2005
It bothers Michelle Jeske that many people still don't know all that their public libraries can do for them, even in Denver, where 80 percent of the population has a library card. Fortunately, as manager of web information services at the Denver Public Library (DPL), she can reach out to people who never come through the library doors. Jeske and…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Services, Librarians, Web Sites
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Horwood, Bert – Journal of Experiential Education, 1983
Discusses the common characteristics of experiential education programs and administration in public and private elementary, secondary, and alternative high schools in Colorado and New Mexico. Also discusses the attributes of an effective outdoor education leader and how those attributes are acquired, based on interviews with Southwestern outdoor…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Leadership Qualities
Cama, Paul G. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The restorative justice process utilizes various intervention strategies created by indigenous tribes throughout the world, as an alternative to procedural justice (Zehr, 2002). In modern education, restorative justice was incorporated into the public-school system, where it has evolved into a preemptive measure to combat punitive discipline…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Discipline Policy, Justice, Program Implementation
Early Learning Challenge Technical Assistance, 2017
This resource was prepared for a Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) State in response to a request for examples of States that support local Early Learning Councils. Local Early Learning Councils are public-private partnerships that work to align and strengthen a comprehensive early childhood system and to coordinate funding coming…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Lowham, Elizabeth A.; Lowham, James R. – Democracy & Education, 2015
There is little doubt of public school's role in the enculturation of youth into American democracy. There are several aspects about which little is known that should be addressed prior to seeking options to understand and address civic education for the 21st century: first, the desired civic knowledge, skills, and predispositions are not clearly…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Democracy, Democratic Values, Citizenship Education
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2020
State policymakers and the public at large have a vested interest in the successful governance of their higher education institutions. The citizens who are appointed or elected to serve as board members of a state's colleges and universities oversee valuable public assets that they hold in trust for the state and for current and future…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Capacity Building, College Administration, State Colleges
LeCompte, Margaret D. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2014
This article describes how different constituencies in a major research university tried to initiate change despite disagreements over common goals, norms and principles. The context was a culture war. The university administration wanted to impose a corporatising and privatising philosophy which it felt was crucial to preserving the university's…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Faculty, College Administration, Governance
Allen, Jane A.; Davis, Kevin C.; Duke, Jennifer C.; Nonnemaker, James M.; Bradfield, Brian R.; Farrelly, Matthew C.; Novak, Scott P.; Zarkin, Gary A. – Health Education Research, 2016
This study examines the relationship between self-reports of being high on marijuana and perceptions about driving high or drunk. Data were collected in 2014 from an online convenience sample of adult, past 30-day marijuana and hashish users in Colorado and Washington (n = 865). Respondents were asked, "Were you high or feeling the effects of…
Descriptors: Adults, Marijuana, Drug Abuse, Surveys
Bridich, Sarah Melvoin – Journal of Educational Administration, 2021
Purpose: This paper explores how leaders of new public high schools -- one charter and two innovation schools -- navigated the journey from school-in-theory to school-in-practice during the school's first three years. School leaders at charter and innovation schools have increased freedom over curriculum, budget, scheduling and personnel when…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Public Schools, High Schools, Charter Schools
Sylvester, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Women are underrepresented in a variety of fields, including educational leadership. Upon assuming leadership roles, women often struggle to effectively lead due to a pervasive context of sexism and genderism in the workplace. Schools are not immune to this phenomenon. Since women comprise approximately 50% of the population, it seems logical that…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Educational Administration, Gender Bias
Howell, William G. – Education Next, 2015
Caught between extraordinary public expectations and relatively modest constitutional authority, U.S. presidents historically have fashioned all sorts of mechanisms--executive orders, proclamations, memoranda--by which to move their objectives forward. William Howell asserts that under President Barack Obama's administration, presidential…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, State Policy
Meyer, Stephen J.; Espel, Emma V.; Weston-Sementelli, Jennifer L.; Melton, Joshua; Anguiano, Carlos J. – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2020
Education decision makers in Colorado, Missouri, and South Dakota share concerns about and need more information on changes in school and district leadership (principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and assistant superintendents), including mobility (when leaders move to a different school or district within the state public school…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Occupational Mobility, Principals, Assistant Principals
Meyer, Stephen J.; Espel, Emma V.; Weston-Sementelli, Jennifer L.; Melton, Joshua; Anguiano, Carlos J. – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2020
Education decision makers in Colorado, Missouri, and South Dakota share concerns about and need more information on changes in school and district leadership (principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and assistant superintendents), including mobility (when leaders move to a different school or district within the state public school…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Occupational Mobility, Principals, Assistant Principals
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2010
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Education Appropriations Bill Signed into Law: U.S. Department of Education to Receive $1 Billion Increase in…
Descriptors: Public Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Politics of Education