Busting Bureaucracy To Reclaim Our Schools

Author : Stephen B. Lawton,Joseph Freedman,Heather-jane Robertson,Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 0886451612

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Busting Bureaucracy to Reclaim Our Schools by Stephen B. Lawton,Joseph Freedman,Heather-jane Robertson,Institute for Research on Public Policy Pdf

In this book, the author argues that the bureaucratization of schooling has interfered with the process of education. The costs, complexity, and rigidity of the educational edifice leaves it unresponsive to parental concerns and reluctant to measure its own inadequacies such as illiteracy and high dropout rates among students. The author identifies two conceptual bases for action to address this problem: public choice theory and agency theory, discusses the issue of identity in its relation to education, and then makes the case for charter schools in Canada, stressing definitions of community, parental rights, and the need to combat bureaucratic tendencies. Two discussants respond to the author's analysis, one amplifying his call for charter schools and the other arguing that the basis for demanding reform is less clear than the author claims.

Author : Paul W. Bennett
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780228002277

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The State of the System by Paul W. Bennett Pdf

Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage. Crying out for democratic school-level reform, the system is now a centralized, bureaucratic fortress that, every year, becomes softer on standards for students, less accessible to parents, further out of touch with communities, and surprisingly unresponsive to classroom teachers. Exploring the nature of the Canadian education order in all its dimensions, The State of the System explains how public schools came to be so bureaucratic, confronts the critical issues facing kindergarten to grade 12 public schools in all ten provinces, and addresses the need for systemic reform. Going beyond a diagnosis of the stresses, strains, and ills present in the system, Paul Bennett proposes a bold plan to re-engineer schools on a more human scale as the first step in truly reforming public education. In place of school consolidation and managerialism, one-size-fits-all uniformity, limited school choice, and the "success-for-all" curriculum, Bennett advocates for a new set of priorities: decentralize school governance, deprogram education ministries and school districts, listen to parents and teachers, and revitalize local education democracy. Tackling the thorny issues besetting contemporary school systems in Canada, The State of the System issues a clarion call for more responsive, engaged, and accountable public schools.

Author : International Journal of Educational Reform
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781475816181

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IJER Vol 8-N4 by International Journal of Educational Reform Pdf

The mission of the International Journal of Educational Reform (IJER) is to keep readers up-to-date with worldwide developments in education reform by providing scholarly information and practical analysis from recognized international authorities. As the only peer-reviewed scholarly publication that combines authors’ voices without regard for the political affiliations perspectives, or research methodologies, IJER provides readers with a balanced view of all sides of the political and educational mainstream. To this end, IJER includes, but is not limited to, inquiry based and opinion pieces on developments in such areas as policy, administration, curriculum, instruction, law, and research. IJER should thus be of interest to professional educators with decision-making roles and policymakers at all levels turn since it provides a broad-based conversation between and among policymakers, practitioners, and academicians about reform goals, objectives, and methods for success throughout the world. Readers can call on IJER to learn from an international group of reform implementers by discovering what they can do that has actually worked. IJER can also help readers to understand the pitfalls of current reforms in order to avoid making similar mistakes. Finally, it is the mission of IJER to help readers to learn about key issues in school reform from movers and shakers who help to study and shape the power base directing educational reform in the U.S. and the world.

Author : Andy Hargreaves
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402044533

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Extending Educational Change by Andy Hargreaves Pdf

ANDY HARGREAVES Department of Teacher Education, Curriculum and Instruction Lynch School of Education, Boston College, MA, U.S.A. ANN LIEBERMAN Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford, CA, U.S.A. MICHAEL FULLAN Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada DAVID HOPKINS Department for Education and Skills, London, U.K. This set of four volumes on Educational Change brings together evidence and insights on educational change issues from leading writers and researchers in the field from across the world. Many of these writers, whose chapters have been specially written for these books, have been investigating, helping initiate and implementing educational change, for most or all of their lengthy careers. Others are working on the cutting edge of theory and practice in educational change, taking the field in new or even more challenging directions. And some are more skeptical about the literature of educational change and the assumptions on which it rests. They help us to approach projects of understanding or initiating educational change more deeply, reflectively and realistically. Educational change and reform have rarely had so much prominence within public policy, in so many different places. Educational change is ubiquitous. It figures large in Presidential and Prime Ministerial speeches. It is at or near the top of many National policy agendas. Everywhere, educational change is not only a policy priority but also major public news. Yet action to bring about educational change usually exceeds people's understanding of how to do so effectively.

Author : Andy Hargreaves,A. Lieberman,M. Fullan,D.W. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401149440

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International Handbook of Educational Change by Andy Hargreaves,A. Lieberman,M. Fullan,D.W. Hopkins Pdf

The International Handbook of Educational Change is a state of the art collection of the most important ideas and evidence of educational change. The book brings together some of the most influential thinkers and writers on educational change. It deals with issues like educational innovation, reform, restructuring, culture-building, inspection, school-review, and change management. It asks why some people resist change and what their resistance means. It looks at how men and women, older teachers and younger teachers, experience change differently. It looks at the positive aspects of change but does not hesitate to raise uncomfortable questions about many aspects of educational change either. It looks critically and controversially at the social, economic, cultural and political forces that are driving educational change. School leaders, system administration, teacher leaders, consultants, facilitators, educational researchers, staff developers and change agents of all kinds will find this book an indispensable resource for guiding them to both classic and cutting-edge understandings of educational change, no other work provides as comprehensive coverage of the field of educational change.

Author : Stephen B. Lawton,Canadian Education Association
Publisher : Canadian Education Association
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 1896660045

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Financing Canadian Education by Stephen B. Lawton,Canadian Education Association Pdf

Author : Frank Brown,Richard C. Hunter
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780762312993

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No Child Left Behind and other Federal Programs for Urban School Districts by Frank Brown,Richard C. Hunter Pdf

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act is designed to close the achievement gap between disadvantaged and disadvantaged children through its Title I program. This book explores models to achieve equity in Title I schools; and defines what is required of states in Title I schools. It examines how each state implements NCLB accountability standards.

Author : Lynn Bosetti,Diane Gereluk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442643086

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Understanding School Choice in Canada by Lynn Bosetti,Diane Gereluk Pdf

Understanding School Choice in Canada provides a nuanced and theoretical overview of the formation and rise of school choice policies in Canada. Drawing on twenty years of work, Lynn Bosetti and Dianne Gereluk analyze the philosophical, historical, political, and social principles that underpin the formation and implementation of school choice policies in the provinces and territories. Bosetti and Gereluk offer theoretical frameworks for considering the parameters of school choice policies that are aligned and attentive to Canadian educational contexts. This robust overview successfully shifts the debate away from ideology in order to facilitate an understanding that the spectrum of school choice policy in Canada is a response to the varying political challenges in society at large. This book is essential reading for those who desire a deeper understanding of school choice policies in Canada.

Author : Andrew Coulson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351506885

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Market Education by Andrew Coulson Pdf

Discontent with public education has been on the rise in recent years, as parents complain that their children are not being taught the basics, that they are not pushed to excel, and that their classrooms are too chaotic to encourage any real learning. The public has begun to reject school bond levies with regularity, frustrated by what it perceives to be mounting education costs unaccompanied by increased achievement or accountability. Coulson explores the educational problems facing parents and shows how these problems can best be addressed. He begins with a discussion of what people want from their school systems, tracing their views of the kinds of knowledge, skills, and values education should impart, and their concerns over discipline, drugs, and violence in public schools. Using this survey of goals and attitudes as a guide, Coulson sets out to compare the school systems of civilizations both ancient and modern, seeking to determine which systems successfully educated generations past and which did not. His historical study ranges from classical Greece and ancient Rome, through the Islamic world of the Middle Ages, to nineteenth-century England and modern America. Drawing on the historical evidence of how these various systems operated, Coulson concludes that free educational markets have consistently done a better job of serving the public's needs than state-run school systems have. He sets out a blueprint for competitive, free-market educational reform that would make schools more flexible, more innovative, and more responsive to the needs of parents and students. He describes how education for low-income children might be funded under a market system, and how the transition from monopolistic public education to market education might be achieved. Coulson's Market Education touches on a wide range of issues, including declines in academic achievement, minority education, the role of public school teachers, and mismanagement and corruption in educational bureaucracies. Coulson examines alternative reform proposals from vouchers and charter schools to national standards for school curricula. This timely and engaging book will appeal to parents, educators, and others concerned with the quality and cost of schooling, and will serve as an excellent resource in college courses on the economics and history of education.

Author : Peter C. Dobell
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0886452104

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IRPP : the First 30 Years by Peter C. Dobell Pdf

Author : Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0886451698

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Beyond the Impasse by Institute for Research on Public Policy Pdf

Efforts to reform the Canadian constitution have only resulted in a serious impasse fostered by demands for change from Quebec and reticence from English Canada. This book looks at the potential for achieving reconciliation through a new partnership between Quebec and Canada in a series of papers that examine the stakes for both Canada and Quebec in opting for a modified relationship that is neither the status quo nor complete separation. Two papers in part 1 lay the conceptual groundwork concerning the constituent elements of partnership. Papers in part 2 deal with the economic union in the context of a renewed partnership. Four papers in part 3 examine issues concerning rights, recognition, and citizenship in a Quebec-Canada partnership. Part 5 broadens the discussion to the international arena and includes a comparative international scan of partnership models. The final part distils the two editors' separate conclusions on how to move beyond the impasse based on the studies presented.

Author : Thomas A. Hutton,Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0886451728

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The Transformation of Canada's Pacific Metropolis by Thomas A. Hutton,Institute for Research on Public Policy Pdf

Author : F. Leslie Seidle,Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0886451787

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Rethinking the Delivery of Public Services to Citizens by F. Leslie Seidle,Institute for Research on Public Policy Pdf

Based on in-depth research and 50 interviews with senior officials. Examines recent innovations: structural change to separate policy and operational functions; total quality management principles; performance targets, service standards and client assessment; partnership and single window/one stop shopping techniques.

Author : Thomas T. Schweitzer,Robert Kirby Crocker,Geraldine Gilliss
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 0886451590

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The State of Education in Canada by Thomas T. Schweitzer,Robert Kirby Crocker,Geraldine Gilliss Pdf

How good are Canadian schools? What measurements should we use to evaluate the state of Canadian education? This book discusses the state of schools in Canada in comparison to other countries as well as province-to-province. It looks at the crucial elements in any educational system, ranging from the family environment to the quality of teaching to the effectiveness of school bureaucracy. It also stresses the importance of education in creating a well-trained and efficient workforce and suggests that a high level of numeracy and literacy generates significant income premiums for Canadian workers.

Author : Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 0886451841

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The Canadian Social Union Without Quebec by Institute for Research on Public Policy Pdf

Also published in French under title: L'union sociale canadienne sans le Quebec.