Government reform trends moved toward increasing administrative efficiency and accountability, meeting national economic needs through improved technological education, improving the articulation of system parts, opening the school to the community, and correcting inequalities, through both curricular and organizational provisions.
Contributors examine the state's handling of internal threats, tensions between civilians and the military, strategies of political parties, police and law enforcement reform, trends in judicial activism, the rise of border conflicts, economic challenges, financial entanglements with foreign powers, and diplomatic relations with India, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and the United States.
12We do not analyze these data within a difference-in-difference framework because the pre-reform trends are not parallel.
Section 2 describes the methodology used to compile the policy compendium and presents the main reform trends derived from it.
For example, we lack baseline data for pre-reform trends in Weifang and the comparison group; and two years is probably too short a time frame for an evaluation of most dimensions of provider performance.
The GDP per capita variable also does not reach statistical significance, since the difference in reform trends between developed and developing economies is likely to be captured by the inclusion of the regional dummies (not reported in the table).
Persons like myself who disagree with current education reform trends are often accused of stubbornly embracing the status quo.
Diane Ravitch's book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, tells the story of school reform trends, and how Ravitch herself helped forward testing and accountability policies that she has since regretted.
One major plank of the agenda for restructuring New Orleans schools -- which reflects national reform trends promoted by the Obama administration -- is "decentralization" of the system and the expansion of "choice" of schools across districts.
We performed an interrupted time series to examine pre-reform and post-reform trends, plotting readmission rates over time (quarter).
