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Gabriel Asante; Godfred Bonnah Nkansah; David Agbee – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
The underlying ambition of fee-free education is to increase school access. This study reflects on decentralisation in the decision-making process and implementation of fee-free policies. We compare two policies at the high school level in Ghana to evaluate the differences and commonalities in how they responded to school access. We used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Fees, Administrative Organization
Stigberg, Henrik; Stigberg, Susanne – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
Programming and computational thinking have emerged as compulsory skills in elementary school education. In 2018, Sweden has integrated programming in mathematics education with the rationale that it fosters problem solving and logical thinking skills and motivates students to learn mathematics. We investigated how teachers introduce programming…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming, Computation, Mathematics Instruction
Knight, David S.; Duncheon, Julia C. – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
As workforce participation increasingly requires a college degree, ensuring that more students from traditionally underrepresented populations have the opportunity to enter and complete college is an equity imperative. To that end, high school reforms have promoted "college-going cultures" in low-performing high schools through…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Educational Environment, School Culture, Academic Persistence
Stanton, Christine R.; Morrison, Danielle – Policy Futures in Education, 2018
US curricular policies frequently bolster neoliberal power structures within both pre-K to 12 schools and universities by privileging settler-colonial narratives and excluding Indigenous knowledge. However, curricular policies can also serve to enhance social reconstructionist and social justice education. In this article, we describe two case…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, American Indian Education, Indigenous Knowledge
Convertino, Christina – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
In this article, based on an ethnographic study in Sundale City, Arizona, I use an interpretive and anthropological approach to policy analysis to highlight how social actors interpreted the national charter school debate to enact local school choice policy development in their everyday lives. Specifically, findings from this study provide a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Misconceptions, School Choice, Ethnography
Brown, Amy – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
Scholars who document neoliberal trends in education argue that privatization and corporatization in schools is dehumanizing and discourages democratic participation. These scholars assert that neoliberal education policies heighten social inequity by emphasizing individualism, marketability and colorblindness without interrogating social…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Neoliberalism, Educational Trends, Educational Policy
McWilliams, Julia Ann – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
Social scientists have begun to document the stratifying effects of over a decade of unprecedented charter growth in urban districts. An exodus of students from traditional neighborhood schools to charter schools has attended this growth, creating troubling numbers of vacant seats in neighborhood schools as well as concentrating larger percentages…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, Social Bias, Negative Attitudes, School Choice
Dastidar, Ananya G.; Sikdar, Soumyen – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
As India's higher education sector is poised to grow at a tremendous pace, one of its main challenges would be provision of quality education. Teacher quality has been identified as one of the most critical factors affecting educational quality. As such, the immense importance of attracting high-quality entrants into the teaching profession cannot…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Students, Teaching Methods, Career Choice
MacGregor, Carol Ann; Fitzpatrick, Brian – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
Changes in the education system following Hurricane Katrina have received considerable attention from scholars in recent years. However, the role of Catholic schools is often overlooked in such discussions of school reform, which most often concentrate on the dramatic changes in the public school sector. This oversight is significant given that…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Educational Change, Natural Disasters, Charter Schools
Carr, Sarah – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
In this amended excerpt from "Hope Against Hope", educational reform in post-Katrina New Orleans is considered from a journalistic perspective in presenting the story of Geraldlynn Stewart as she and her family navigate the new school system. In providing voices of lived experiences of Stewart as well as other individuals within this new…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Natural Disasters, Low Income Groups, Coping
Reinertsen, Anne Beate – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
This article is about developing school-based self-assessing recursive pedagogies and case/action research practices and/or approaches in schools, and teachers, teacher researchers and researchers simultaneously producing and theorising their own practices using second-order cybernetics as a thinking tool. It is a move towards pragmatic…
Descriptors: Cybernetics, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Teacher Competencies, Foreign Countries