This article outlines the rationale for this special issue on educational policy implementation and provides an overview of the articles in this issue. In addition to summarizing each article, we point out how the findings from the different contributions complement, challenge, and complicate not only the findings and conclusions from other works in this issue, but also insights articulated by Honig (2006) and Odden (1991). We conclude with a discussion of the implications from these articles for educational policy implementation research. Keywords educational policy, implementation, educational reformsWe begin this special issue by outlining what we attempted to set out to do when we initiated this project. The second section describes each of the manuscripts that comprise this special issue. Each article is written to stand alone in the discussion on education policy implementation. We recognize that they are a small sample of implementation studies in education. However, taken as a whole, these contributions will provide broader insight into the complexities of implementation and implementation research. We intentionally included studies of different policies, reforms that were initiated and funded by at different levels of

Drawing on Kingdon's multiple streams framework, this study examines how teacher education policy has gained prominence on the federal decision agenda in recent years.

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