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Author : Neil D. Theobald,Betty Malen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317927853
This book examines the impact of state activism on local school autonomy in terms of both financial resources and policy initiatives.
Author : Bryan Shelly
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472117659
Pointing to the disparities between wealthy and impoverished school districts in areas where revenue depends primarily upon local taxes, reformers repeatedly call for the centralization of school funding. Their proposals meet resistance from citizens, elected officials, and school administrators who fear the loss of local autonomy. Bryan Shelly finds, however, that local autonomy has already been compromised by federal and state governments, which exercise a tremendous amount of control over public education despite their small contribution to a school system's funding. This disproportionate relationship between funding and control allows state and federal officials to pass education policy yet excuses them from supplying adequate funding for new programs. The resulting unfunded and underfunded mandates and regulations, Shelly insists, are the true cause of the loss of community control over public education. Shelly outlines the effects of the most infamous of underfunded federal mandates, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), and explores why schools implemented it despite its unpopularity and out-of-pocket costs. Shelly's findings hold significant implications for school finance reform, NCLB, and the future of intergovernmental relations.
Author : Louis F. Miron,Edward P. St. John
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791486924
Have urban schools failed, or has reform failed urban schools? This book examines existing urban school programs, ranging from desegregation to reading improvement, in light of available historical, empirical, and case study evidence. Miron and St. John and their contributors probe the underlying theoretical, normative, and political assumptions embedded in specific reform initiatives. They explore how reforms might be reconstructed to better address the underlying challenges and they demonstrate that reforms can be constructively critiqued throughout the stages of implementation, arguing that greater attention should be paid to ethnic and cultural traditions within urban educational settings. Contributors include Leetta Allen-Haynes; Joseph Cadray; Choong-Geun Chung; Richard Fossey; Barry M. Franklin; David Gordon; Carol Anne Hossler; Siri Loescher; Kim Manoil; Genevieve Manset; Louis F. Mirón; Glenda Droogsma Musoba; Kathryn Nakagawa; Carolyn S. Ridenour; Ada B. Simmons; Edward P. St. John; Neil Theobald; Sandra Washburn; Kenneth K. Wong; and Kim Worthington.
Author : Bonnie C. Fusarelli,Bruce S. Cooper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791477113
Examines how federal and state governments have assumed ever-greater control over the education process since the 1960s.
Author : Douglas E. Mitchell,Robert L. Crowson,Dorothy Shipps
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136869976
Shaping Education Policy is a comprehensive overview of education politics and policy during the most turbulent and rapidly changing period in American history. Respected scholars review the history of education policy to explain the political powers and processes that shape education today. Chapters cover major themes that have influenced education, including the civil rights movement, federal involvement, the accountability movement, family choice, and development of nationalization and globalization. Sponsored by the Politics of Education Association, this edited collection examines the tumultuous shifts in education policy over the last six decades and projects the likely future of public education. This book is a necessary resource for understanding the evolution, current status, and possibilities of educational policy and politics.
Author : Thomas C. Hunt,James C. Carper,Thomas J. Lasley, II,C. Daniel Raisch
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1113 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412956642
The history of American education is replete with educational reform, and to a lesser extent, educational dissent. Consider the present: you have various forms of privatization, school choice, the 'No Child Left Behind' act, home schooling, 'value-added' accountability, alternative teacher preparation programs, on-line instruction, etc. This range of activity is not exceptional. For instance, consider the past: progressive education, open education, the junior high school, the middle school, Life Adjustment education, career education, vocational education, the comprehensive high school, school-to-work, year-round schooling, behavioral objectives, proficiency exams (high-stakes testing), whole language, learning packages and self-paced instruction, modular scheduling, site-based management, all presented as the way to reform American schools, at least in part. Then you have the reformers themselves, such as John Dewey, George Counts, Herbert Kohl, John Holt, Charles Silberman, Admiral Hyman Rickover, James Bryant Conant, all the way back to Horace Mann himself. Dissenters, and dissenting movements, while not as numerous and certainly not as well known in educational circles, count the various faith-based schools and individuals such as Archbishop Hughes of New York.Clearly, this is an area rich in ideas, rife with controversy, and vital in its outcome for individuals and the nation as a whole. And yet, strangely enough, there exists no major encyclopedia bringing the varied strands together in one place as a ready reference for scholars, teachers, school administrators, and students studying to enter the educational profession. This two-volume work is intended to be that authoritative resource. Key themes and topics include: " biographies of reformers and dissenters " theoretical and ideological perspectives " key programs and legislation " judicial verdicts impacting educational change in America " the politics and processes of educational reform and policy making " dissent and resistance to reform " technology's impact on educational reform. A Reader's Guide in the front matter groups entries around such themes to help readers find related entries more easily.
Author : Stephen Chaikind,William J. Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317927822
The 2001 Yearbook of the AEFA reaffirms the connections between the field of education finance and the wider education community. Among the topics it examines are curricula reform, outcome assessment, accountability, community control, and privatization. 2001.
Author : Fenwick W. English,Gary L. Anderson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0761929797
The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership is a landmark work with contributions from 37 internationally renowned scholars covering an extensive range of issues confronting the field of educational leadership and administration. The Handbook reviews how leadership was redefined by management and organizational theory in its quest to become scientific, then looks forward to promising theories, concepts, and practices that show potential for development and application. This Handbook represents the establishment of a new tradition in educational leadership. It thoroughly covers a broad range of issues pertaining to curriculum leadership, supervision, teacher evaluation, budgeting, planning, school design, and issues facing the principalship and the superintendency in the United States.
Author : Gloria M. Rodriguez,R. Anthony Rolle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135918064
This unique collection examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting the K-12 education system in the United States. The authors included in this volume provide critiques and explorations of several established theories and policy approaches that undergird contemporary thinking in the field of school finance. These explorations offer themselves as foundations for building new frameworks to understand how school finance policies might better support broader changes needed to improve the educational conditions faced by those individuals and groups traditionally underrepresented in economic, political, and social policy arenas.
Author : Fenwick W. English
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780761930877
Focusing on educational leadership and school administration, offers over six hundred alphabetically arranged entries covering theories, terms, concepts, and histories.
Author : Helen F. Ladd,Edward B. Fiske
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135863883
Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), this groundbreaking new handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, thereby helping to define this evolving field of research and practice. It provides a readily available resource for anyone seriously involved in education finance and policy in the United States and around the world. The Handbook traces the evolution of the field from its initial focus on school inputs and the revenue sources used to finance these inputs to a focus on educational outcomes and the larger policies used to achieve them. It shows how the current decision-making context in school finance inevitably interacts with those of governance, accountability, equity, privatization, and other areas of education policy. Because a full understanding of the important contemporary issues requires input from a variety of perspectives, the Handbook draws on contributors from a variety of disciplines. While many of the chapters cover complex state-of-the-art empirical research, the authors explain key concepts in language that non-specialists can understand.
Author : Nancy Beadie,Kim Tolley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135316525
Academies were a prevalent form of higher schooling during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States. The authors in this volume look at the academy as the dominant institution of higher schooling in the United States, highlighting the academy's role in the formation of middle class social networks and culture in the mid-nineteenth century. They also reveal the significance of the academy for ethnic, religious, and racial minorities who organized independent academies in the face of exclusion and discrimination by other private and public institutions.
Author : William E. Thro
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412987578
Written and signed by experts in the field, this volume in the pointunterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the topic of school finance, providing readers with an illustrated overview of the subject as well as resources for further study.
Author : Lauren Morando Rhim,Sam Redding
Publisher : IAP
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623966720
With chapters written by leading researchers and practitioners actively engaged in the work, this Edited Volume examines the role of the state education agency in school turnaround efforts. An emphasis is placed on practical application of research and best practice related to the State Education Agency’s (SEA’s) critical leadership role in driving and supporting successful school turnaround efforts. The Edited Volume is organized around the Center on School Turnaround’s four objectives, with sections devoted to each: 1. Create a Pro-Turnaround Statutory and Regulatory Environment 2. Administer and Manage Turnaround Efforts Effectively 3. Provide Targeted and Timely Technical Assistance to Local Educational Agencies and Schools 4. Advocate and Lead to Build Support for Local Turnaround Efforts
Author : Kenneth A. Sirotnik
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807744646
Kenneth Sirotnik asserts that however well-intentioned, past and current accountability practices in public education are "miseducative, misdirected, and misanthropic." In this provocative book, well-respected educators join Sirotnik to provide critical analyses and sophisticated perspectives on prevailing high-stakes accountability practices. They offer both conceptual and practical foundations for rethinking what it means to act responsibly when it comes to calling our schools, school systems, educators, and students into account.