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Dissertation Information for Jack Glazier

NAME:
- Jack Glazier
- (Alias) Jack Desmond Glazier

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Welfare and Social Structure

SCHOOL:
- University of Missouri (USA) (1994)

ADVISORS:
- Peter M. Hall

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Complete - Except Indecipherables

Title: Career ladder policy formation and implementation: A symbolic interactionist approach to local policy practices

Abstract: This is a study of local policy processes relating to the public education policy arena. It investigates local policy processes, comprised of the concepts of power, structure, control, resistance, and negotiation, within the context of differing agendas and intentions of a broad range of actors at various sites. Hence, this study is an examination of the impact of local structures, practices, and conditions on the policy processes of a local district's career ladder program within the context of state and national educational reform efforts in the 1980's. To fully understand the processes out of which the career ladder program emerged at the state and local levels, it is necessary to be familiar with these contexts as well as the accompanying organizational relations, arrangements, and processes. It is these processes and activities that defined what the career ladder program was to be and it is the layers of contexts that facilitate and constrain the processes and activities. As a result, it was necessary to "unpack" these layers of contexts in order to expose the local policy formulation and enactment processes. Districts that choose to participate in the state's career ladder program were given a manual and model plan by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to guide their work. There was limited latitude in the guidelines (less than the original legislation had included) for districts to tailor local plans to local needs. Each district's plan had to be approved by Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Following implementation and enactment, each district was then required to submit an annual self-administered evaluation of their program. This study closely examines and analyzes that process.

MPACT Scores for Jack Glazier

A = 1
C = 2
A+C = 3
T = 1
G = 1
W = 1
TD = 1
TA = 0
calculated 2010-08-19 16:17:13

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