Author:
Honig, Hatch
Year:
2004
Bliography Information:
Meredith I. Honig, & Thomas C. Hatch. Educational Researcher, 33(8), 16-30 (2004). A nice overview, analysis, and reconceptualization of the policy-practice gap.
Focused on K-12. They suggest that coherence between policy and practice be thought of as a process which involves schools and school district central offices working together to craft or continually negotiate the fit between external demands and schools' own goals and strategies.
www.jstor.org/stable/3699980