These schools are also
under policy pressure to get more of their students up to the «proficient» bar, with few resources to spare for fast learners who have already reached it.
Current
policy pressures on universities to focus on improving their research excellence and to widen participation make it hard for them to engage meaningfully with excluded communities, according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
So to sum up: The federal government provided incentives and
policy pressure for states to sign on to the Common Core State Standards.
Leveson is worried about the «megaphone» on the one hand and
the policy pressure on the other - between them, there's a risk that they might get out of hand.
Nevertheless, in my view, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the conjunction of resource, population and
policy pressures, particularly in the second half of 2013 - 14 and particularly in adult male prisons, was a very significant factor for the rapid deterioration in safety and other outcomes we found as the year progressed.»
While some of the news in these findings supports earlier research (small group instruction, overall commitment to reading, time for reading independently, and the importance of higher level questions), we hope it is welcome news, especially at a time when
the policy pressures to focus our curriculum in particular ways are stronger than ever.
It appears at present as if the technological and
policy pressures to put governments back in control are largely succeeding.