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Who's in Charge Here? : The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policy /

This title makes sense of the United States system of school governance and considers where it might be heading. It discusses issues such as recruiting good teachers, school choice, the school's growing 'family ' role and who is, and who should be, responsible for schools and the cons...

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Collectivité auteur: Education Commission of the States
Autres auteurs: Epstein, Noel
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction : who should be in charge of our schools? / Noel Epstein
  • Turning points : a history of American school governance / Michael W. Kirst
  • The Tenth Amendment and other paper tigers : the legal boundaries of education governance / James E. Ryan
  • Recovering from an accident : repairing governance with comparative advantage / Paul T. Hill
  • A solution that lost its problem : centralized policymaking and classroom gains / Larry Cuban
  • Less than meets the eye : standards, testing, and fear of federal control / Susan H. Fuhrman
  • A teacher supply policy for education : how to meet the "highly qualified teacher" challenge / Linda Darling-Hammond and Gary Sykes
  • Multiple choice questions : the road ahead / Henry M. Levin
  • The American kibbutz? : managing the school's family role / Noel Epstein.