After-School Service Policy Documents from Shanghai and New Jersey

A comparative study analyzes after-school service policy documents issued by Shanghai, China, and New Jersey, United States. The dataset, created by Mingqian Wang and last updated in April 2026, includes policy documents in DOCX and PPTX formats totaling 164.7 KB. It establishes a two-dimensional analytical framework of policy instruments and content to examine policy deployment and coherence.

Use Cases

• Comparative analysis of policy instrument deployment based on the described two-dimensional framework.
• Studying the coherence between policy instruments and content in education governance.
• Identifying gaps in quality supervision system development within policy documents.
• Benchmarking after-school service policy structures between different administrative regions.

Strengths

• Policy documents are sourced from two distinct geographic regions, Shanghai and New Jersey, enabling cross-comparison.
• The study employs a defined two-dimensional analytical framework (policy instruments and content).
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• Dataset size is 164.7 KB, indicating a very limited scope of documents.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and document completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Analysis based on policy documents issued by Shanghai and New Jersey.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 10:33:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Shanghai, China and New Jersey, United States