Introduction to the Policy Brief Special Issue
| العنوان: | Introduction to the Policy Brief Special Issue |
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| المؤلفون: | Kieran M. Killeen, Thomas A. Downes |
| المصدر: | Education Finance and Policy. 8:271-274 |
| بيانات النشر: | MIT Press - Journals, 2013. |
| سنة النشر: | 2013 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | business.industry, Political science, Public policy, Education policy, Public relations, business, Discipline, Publication, Human learning, Education, Diversity (business) |
| الوصف: | Kieran.killeen@uvm.edu As research on education policy has evolved, the most cutting edge research has become less and less accessible to policy makers. Inaccessibility stems from many causes, including the proliferation of policy topics, the diversity of disciplinary interests in education policy, and the existence of technical or methodological hurdles. Academic journals, however, rarely consider accessibility when deciding which manuscripts to publish, but the accessibility of the research may play a very important role in determining whether it actually affects policy. This journal (EFP) is relatively unusual in that it includes among its objectives “[t]o aid in the deliberations” of “[o]ngoing public policy developments affecting educational institutions and systems” and to promote “understanding of the means by which global resources can be justly and productively engaged to enhance human learning at all levels.” In our role as editors of EFP, we consider the accessibility of research articles when deciding what to publish. Nevertheless, there remains a difficult balancing act between showing the technical merits of new research and making sure that research is accessible. Given this, many of the research articles published in EFP are still likely to be difficult for policy makers to understand. With this in mind, at the founding of the journal an effort was made to make policy briefs a critical component of EFP’s regular content. The intent was for these briefs to provide an explicit avenue through which the lessons from current research are distilled for policy makers. As such, policy briefs were |
| تدمد: | 1557-3079 1557-3060 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::8c736d5ba311f06f62c44d06b4d74ac4 https://doi.org/10.1162/edfp_e_00094 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........8c736d5ba311f06f62c44d06b4d74ac4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15573079 15573060 |
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