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Primary Research Questions |
Governance structures can be a lens for examining a broad array of factors that widen or narrow the gap between the schools and the colleges. The project's main research questions include:
- To what extent is K-16 reform perceived as a state policy concern?
- What are the incentives and disincentives for improved connections?
- What are the main goals and objectives of current state-level K-16 reforms?
- Who is responsible for developing and implementing those changes? How do governors, key legislators, and agencies influence inter-level programs?
- What have been the main successes and failures to date?
- What changes in these structures, processes, and relationships, if any, have taken place since the reforms were initiated?
- To what extent do state budgetary practices impede or encourage the establishment and viability of inter-level programs?
- What is the short- and long-term outlook for inter-level relationships? Is legislative or gubernatorial action to promote collaboration likely? Are specific connective mechanisms operational or being proposed?
- How do the reforms, incentives, disincentives, successes, and barriers differ among the case-study states, and why?
- In what ways, and under what circumstances, do cooperation and conflict between the levels manifest themselves?
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