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Strong states, weak schools : the benefits and dilemmas of centralized accountability /
Civic leaders around the globe now press educators to raise the performance of students and schools. Backed by a colorful array of odd bedfellows - from corporate interests to advocates for the poor - politicians seek to narrow the aims of learning, advance routine curricular packages, and tightly a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Bingley :
Emerald JAI,
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Research in sociology of education ;
v. 16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Civic leaders around the globe now press educators to raise the performance of students and schools. Backed by a colorful array of odd bedfellows - from corporate interests to advocates for the poor - politicians seek to narrow the aims of learning, advance routine curricular packages, and tightly align standardized tests. Why are governments pushing to centrally regulate teaching and learning at this historical moment? Do these accountability mechanisms succeed in boosting student achievement? How are teachers responding to top-down rules, incentives, and the recasting of what knowledge counts inside school? These are the hotly contested ideological and empirical questions asked by this volume's contributors, a rich mix of sociologists, applied anthropologists, and education researchers. As public schools struggle to regain public confidence, political actors eagerly try to look strong and forceful. But do centralized accountability policies lift the motivation of teachers and students? Or, is this reform strategy a brilliant political remedy - but one that makes little difference inside the classroom. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 243 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and subject index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846639111 1846639115 1846639107 9781846639104 1280770791 9781280770791 9786613681560 6613681563 |
| ISSN: | 1479-3539 ; |