This phase combines a determination to improve the quality of pupil learning with a much more interventionist set of strategies than has been witnessed in recent years. This set of policies has inherent weaknesses. Some of these are derived from the partial incorporation into current policy of the...
This paper not only seeks to show what educational policies are open to governments in multicultural societies on a comparative basis, but also to trace the evolution of policy in England and Wales during the past twenty‐five years. It shows that while theoretically there has been a shift of...
“The scale of the educational inequalities in this country is an issue of such import that we should be concentrating all the methods of our discipline in attempting an understanding of the scale of the problem, the causes of the problem and identifying evidence-based policies that might serv...
School Effectiveness, School Improvement and Contemporary Educational Policies The last twenty years have seen the arrival of school effectiveness and school improvement research and practice to a position of central influence upon the educational policies being pursued within England and Wales. The new La...
But the point is that school districts play a similar role as the interface between state policies and the schools. In this chapter, we briefly introduce our perspectives on the transnational influences, as they can be seen in the case of the OECD. This serves as a basis for discussing the...
The authors review the history of mainstream school support for young bilingual learners in England and how policies and practices have contextualised the research agenda by framing bilingual learners in a monolingual curriculum and assessment structure. The authors consider how ethnographic studies in non...
Chapman, eds, Values education and lifelong learning: Principles, policies, programmes, Springer, 2007). It has been argued that teachers need explicit opportunities to reflect on their own personal and professional values to enable them to model what they ask of their students with integrity (...
It is the traditional pattern of formulation of policy and decision making in this country that they first establish advisory committees, which carry out investigation and research on educational issues, and suggest policies based on their studies. It is also one of the features of the British ...
This paper describes educational policies and disciplinary practices that constitute a school-to-prison pipeline, specifically in Illinois and Chicago Public Schools. During the 1980s, the so-called war on drugs and harsh sentencing laws ushered the United States into an era of mass incarceration. ...
This year, with the surge of interest in the presidential election since Kamala Harris became the democratic nominee, a number of news stories have focused on the election, the candidates, and their education policies. Harris’ choice of Tim Walz – a former teacher – to be her candidate ...