Standards Deviation: School Policy Implementation Research

Jim Spillane's research, likely from California University of Pennsylvania, examines how schools interpret and implement education policy. The work focuses on the interaction between policy, resources, and teacher sense-making in practice. The dataset appears to be a collection of textual research materials, such as chapters or papers, related to this topic.

Use Cases

• Analyze themes in policy implementation based on chapter titles like 'Doing Standards: Content and Context'
• Study resources for institutional sense-making based on the 'Resources for Sense-Making' chapter
• Model interactive policymaking dynamics based on concepts described in 'Interactive Policymaking' and 'The Schoolteacher and Interactive Policymaking'

Strengths

• Authored by a named researcher, Jim Spillane
• Associated with an academic institution, California University of Pennsylvania
• Structured around specific, named research chapters providing thematic focus

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Jim Spillane, California University of Pennsylvania

Collection Method

Likely academic research and analysis

Time Range

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Freshness

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