Education Policy Analysis Archives

Agamba. “Critical Supports for Secondary Educators in Common Core State Standard Implementation.” The Clearing House. 86.6 (2013): 246-254. MasterFILE Elite. Web. 16 Oct 2015. The authors, all PhD’s, located at Iowa State University, College of Education. The focus of the article relates to teacher professional development. A study of the implications of the Total Instructional Alignment (TIA) used in Iowa public schools. Furthermore, the three authors determined the challenges of meeting the…

remotely new. However, new political concerns over inequality and the emergence of the revolutionary 2013 Savage-Bourdieu model of class stratified in layers by types of capital has seemingly sparked a minor renaissance in sociological studies, political policy, and punditry.1 Within the last five years this emphasis has started to be reflected in discourse across the political spectrum, particularly as deprivation and merit have become greater points of concern. This has taken place mostly…

past.” Within Canadian politics, this assertion has proven to be an immaculate reflection on Harper’s rewriting of history, seen by Jack Granatstein as a way to de-politicize emphasis on social history and restore the place of military history in education. This focus of Confederation and military history, in particular the World Wars has not been without its critics. One of the foremost was the Canadian Historical Association and its concern that the weight on military history obstructs…

Major Anthony S. Miller 24 July 2015 Which imperative is the most important and Why? Give an example of something that the Army could do to enhance capabilities in that domain. Developing leaders to meet the challenges of the 21st century is clearly the most important imperative for the U.S. Army. History is flush with examples of leadership defeating superior technology or causing the defeat to technologically inferior forces: Battle of Little Big Horn,[footnoteRef:1]…

Based on preliminary research of the topic, 236 of the 373 schools have one race comprising 75% of the student body or higher (Ohio Department of Education). Also of interest in Cleveland is the subject of deindustrialization and its role in neighborhood demographics. Two major factors specific to Cuyahoga County are also of interest to me, those being deindustrialization, and the ensuing “white flight”…

significant (82.42±12.05). In contrast, Mehrolhasani et al.(28) concluded that weakness in the implementation of protocols and deficiency in the regulations are the challenges of family medicine policy. The most important challenges are the lack of legal requirements for specialists to collaborate in implementing the policy, completing referral forms and giving feedback to the first level. Also, Golalizadeh et al.(29) stated that the limiting regulations are the weakness of Family Medicine…

However, prior to examining possible alternatives policy makers should consider the Education Policy Analysis Archives’ guiding principles: 1) Teacher evaluation should be based on professional standards and must be sophisticated enough to assess teaching quality as it is manifested across the continuum of teacher…

The article highlights the events and treatment within residential schools and follows with an analysis of Harper’s speech and the reactions of both aboriginals and non-aboriginals. In Harper’s speech he announced “the approval of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and a total of $1.9 billion in payments to former students. In addition…

productivity earned Lodz the Nazi favor Krakow and other ghettos lacked. Lodz grew to be a productive city, and Rumkovski’s proposition for the Germans to pay the city in food addressed concerns surrounding sustaining its large population (Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski). Despite having a lower population to feed and a location conducive to supply smuggling, Krakow suffered from starvation comparable to that in Lodz, where there were no nearby cities to…

Good quality and timely data from health management information systems are the foundation of all health systems. However, too often data sit in reports, on shelves or in databases and are not sufficiently utilised in policy and program development, improvement, strategic planning and advocacy. Without specific interventions aimed at improving the quality of data produced by information systems, health systems will never fully be able to meet the needs of the populations…