Complexity and Policy Implementation Challenges and Opportunities for the Field
@inproceedings{Honig2006ComplexityAP, title={Complexity and Policy Implementation Challenges and Opportunities for the Field}, author={Meredith I. Honig}, year={2006} }
Education policy implementation as a field of research and practice for decades has amounted to a sort of national search for two types of policies: “implementable” policies—those that in practice resemble policy designs—and “successful” policies—those that produce demonstrable improvements in students’ school performance. This focus on what gets implemented and what works makes sense especially in education. After all, education has become a high-stakes, big-budget policy arena. Education…
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