“Hidden” Governance or Counterfactual Case? The US Failure to Pass a National Education Act, 1870–1940

2019 ◽  
pp. 325-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Beadie
Keyword(s):  
National Education ◽  
The Us ◽  
Education Act

scholarly journals Accountability Requirements and Professional Development in the US Adult Basic and Literacy Education System

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
CRISTINE SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
No Child Left Behind ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
National Education ◽  
Southeastern Us ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
The Us ◽  
Curricular Needs

Even before the 2001 enactment of the No Child Left Behind legislation, the education bill that holds schools in the US accountable for student achievement, ‘adult education [had] become part and parcel of the new federal trend to encourage the setting of national education goals and standards and holding programs accountable for demonstrating achievements’ (Sticht 1998). Now, almost ten years after enacting the Workforce Investment Act (1998), the legislation that required states to report how adult students were making progress towards educational and work goals, the field is just beginning to take stock of whether accountability has helped or hurt our adult education system.In the US school system (kindergarten to 12th grade for children five to 18), several researchers have investigated the effect of stronger accountability requirements on professional development systems. Berry et al. (2003), in a study of 250 teachers and principals in schools across six Southeastern US states found that results were mixed:Although high-stakes accountability systems help focus professional development efforts on the curricular needs of students, little evidence exists to support the claim that such systems help teachers change their practice to enhance student learning...A tendency exists…to narrow the focus of professional development activities to tested subjects or provide general support that is disconnected from curricular needs. (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 2004:3)

Global policy convergence through “distributed governance”? The emergence of “national” education standards in the US and Germany

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Hartong
Keyword(s):  
Core Curriculum ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Policy Convergence ◽  
National Education ◽  
Policy Sector ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Performance ◽  
National Education Standards

This article focuses on the discussion of global policy convergence through the implementation of “distributed governance” within the education policy sector. Here, the focus is directed at the emergence of national education standards (NES) as a simultaneous instrument of fair school control and performance increase. Both the US and Germany show a high traditional resistance to nationally centralised educational control, but experienced a massive transformation in this direction by the recent implementation of a national core curriculum initiative (National Education Standardsin Germany andCommon Core State Standardsin the US). This article will rely on global governance and distributed governance research, focusing on the concept of “heterarchies”, to analyse the interplay of global and national contexts in the case of the rise of NES in the US and Germany, ultimately showing the concepts' contributions (and limits) to explain policy convergence.

Common Core Standards (U.S.)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Common Core ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Standards ◽  
National Education ◽  
Elementary And Secondary Education ◽  
High School Graduation Requirements ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Gates Foundation

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are part of a third wave of school reform in the United States. With accompanying tests, these standards combine calls for increased academic rigor, beginning in the 1980s, with more recent efforts to hold schools, teachers, and students accountable for learning outcomes in publicly funded schools. Origins of CCSS can be traced to the 1996 National Education Summit where the National Governors Association (NGA), philanthropic foundations, and business leaders founded Achieve to broker rigorous high school graduation requirements. In 2009, Achieve became the project manager for the construction of CCSS. In 2010, implementation began with incentives from the Obama administration and funding from the Gates Foundation. Advocates choose among a variety of rationales: faltering American economic competitiveness, wide variability among state standards and educational outcomes, highly mobile student populations, and/or a growing income achievement gap. Critics cite federal intrusion in states’ rights, a lack of an evidentiary base, an autocratic process of CCSS production, and/or a mis-framing of problems facing public schools. With the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, federal advocacy of CCSS ended officially.

scholarly journals ANALISA RUH PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DALAM PENDIDIKAN NASIONAL (UNDANG-UNDANG 2003)

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Syahrul Akmal Latif ◽  
Yusri Herman
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
First Principle ◽  
National Unity ◽  
National Education ◽  
Education Act ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual

The issue of education is never over to talk about because education is one measurement of a person's individual accomplishments and achievements systematically nation. The high education of human resources will give a lot of useful works for the individual and social. Unfortunately, the education that was developed based on this character only strengthen individual and social, it’s beyond the divine value . It is due to the historical roots of the character education by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Charles Renouvier (1815-1857); Religious morality in the low education and August Comter (1798- 1857); secular morality. Renouvier said the weakness of youth responsibility, loss of justice equality, respect and others. The process of character education is faced with the application of secularization. Such as, in France Francois Camille Jules Ferry (1832-1893) , a French Education minister said; Moral education is important but explicitely teaching morality does not needed. The development of character education in America is very dynamic. It’s started from 19th century (1900-1950) until 1997.It’s established nationally. Finally, Thomas lichona explained the entire role of religion in the education of character with seven steps and the role of teachers in character education. Thus, the author conducted religious analysis which widely spread among society is that the teaching of Protestant religious. But, It successfully gives individual and social value as character education. On the contrary, the goal of our national educational in 1945 (Version amendment) Article 31, paragraph 3 states: The Government shall manage and organize a national education system. Which increases the Faith and piety as well as noble character in order to educate the nation that adopted by law. Article 31, paragraph 5, states that the government advances science and technology to uphold the values of religious and national unity for the progress of civilization and prosperity of mankind. Likewise, the purpose of philosophy Nasionsl Education Act No. 20 of 2003. The 1945 Constitution and the Law N0 20 of 2003. Strongly reflects the value of belief in one God as the first principle of Pancasila as the first principle says it is an acknowledgment that in developing the nation's education should not be separated from human relations and slave relationship with God the creator.  

Issues in African Academic Language Programming in the U.S.

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
David J. Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
National Level ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Higher Education Act ◽  
National Defense Education Act ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Title Vi ◽  
The Us ◽  
Education Act

Support for academic African language programs (ALPs) in the US began at the national level with the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (renamed the Higher Education Act of 1965). The goal of this legislation was to establish a world-wide language and area studies knowledge base that could be called upon in the event of conflict, but in addition it has provided generations of students a wealth of knowledge about the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) and the communities where they are spoken. Although the Africa region’s share of this support has hovered around 12%, its effect has been substantial. For example, based on a world-wide listing of Africanist linguists, approximately half of these specialists live in Africa, with the remainder being equally divided between the countries of Europe and the US, a remarkable fact given that the US has no colonial legacy in Africa. Title VI of this legislation supports a set of National Resource Centers (NRCs) that promote language and area study of a specific region including Africa.

scholarly journals English language education in primary schooling in Argentina

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melina Porto
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Background Information ◽  
English Language Education ◽  
Program Leaders ◽  
National Education ◽  
Primary Schooling ◽  
Curriculum Guidelines ◽  
Education Act

This article describes public primary English language education in Argentina. I begin with background information about the country and a brief historical overview of education in general, accompanied by a portrait of primary schooling in particular. This overview involves local, political and economic considerations but also international influences that have played a key role in shaping the direction of language policies in primary education at the provincial and national levels in the country. I describe the national curriculum guidelines (Núcleos de aprendizaje prioritario, NAP) for foreign language education, contextualising them within the national education policies for primary school in force since 2003 and the new National Education Act (Ley Nacional de Educación 26.206). These guidelines and policies adopt an intercultural and plurilingual approach in the teaching of foreign languages, including English, at all levels of education and embrace a social justice conceptualisation of education in all cases. This approach has been materialised in ELT curriculum developments and programs in several of the 24 jurisdictions of the country with different degrees of development. I illustrate with the cases of the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Entre Ríos and Chubut using interview data collected in 2015. Program leaders in these provinces describe their local initiatives. The article closes with a brief account of the affordances observed and the challenges ahead.

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