Author: Douglas E. MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Impact of California's Legislative Policy on Public School Performance
Author: Douglas E. MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Public and Private Schools
Author: Doug WillmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private schools
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Critical Tensions in the Governance of California Public Education
Author: Dennis J. EncarnationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Charter School Operations and Performance
Author: Ron ZimmerPublisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 0833034146
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Analyzes an array of issues pertaining to accessibility, student achievement, governance, and operation of charter schools in California. Four specific research questions were investigated: (1) What population of students attends charter schools? (2) Is student achievement higher in charter schools than in conventional public schools? (3) What oversight and support do the chartering authorities provide? (4) How do charter schools differ from their conventional public school counterparts in terms of their operation, including finances, academic achievement, and staffing?
Resources in Education
Author: Learning from the Federal Market?Based Reforms
Author: William J. MathisPublisher: IAP
ISBN: 1681235056
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top?down, market?focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice. The new Every Student Succeeds Act continues along this path, though with decision?making authority now shifted toward the states. These market?based reforms have often been touted as the most promising response to the challenges of poverty and educational disenfranchisement. But has this approach been successful? Has learning improved? Have historically low?scoring schools “turned around” or have the reforms had little effect? Have these narrow conceptions of schooling harmed the civic and social purposes of education in a democracy? This book presents the evidence. Drawing on the work of the nation’s most prominent researchers, the book explores the major elements of these reforms, as well as the social, political, and educational contexts in which they take place. It examines the evidence supporting the most common school improvement strategies: school choice; reconstitutions, or massive personnel changes; and school closures. From there, it presents the research findings cutting across these strategies by addressing the evidence on test score trends, teacher evaluation, “miracle” schools, the Common Core State Standards, school choice, the newly emerging school improvement industry, and re?segregation, among others. The weight of the evidence indisputably shows little success and no promise for these reforms. Thus, the authors counsel strongly against continuing these failed policies. The book concludes with a review of more promising avenues for educational reform, including the necessity of broader societal investments for combatting poverty and adverse social conditions. While schools cannot single?handedly overcome societal inequalities, important work can take place within the public school system, with evidence?based interventions such as early childhood education, detracking, adequate funding and full?service community schools—all intended to renew our nation’s commitment to democracy and equal educational opportunity.
Oversight on Efforts to Reduce Infant Mortality and to Improve Pregnancy Outcome
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The California Handbook
Author: Judging Law and Policy
Author: Robert M. HowardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136887601
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
To what extent do courts make social and public policy and influence policy change? This innovative text analyzes this question generally and in seven distinct policy areas that play out in both federal and state courts—tax policy, environmental policy, reproductive rights, sex equality, affirmative action, school finance, and same-sex marriage. The authors address these issues through the twin lenses of how state and federal courts must and do interact with the other branches of government and whether judicial policy-making is a form of activist judging. Each chapter uncovers the policymaking aspects of judicial process by investigating the current state of the law, the extent of court involvement in policy change, the responses of other governmental entities and outside actors, and the factors which influenced the degree of implementation and impact of the relevant court decisions. Throughout the book, Howard and Steigerwalt examine and analyze the literature on judicial policy-making as well as evaluate existing measures of judicial ideology, judicial activism, court and legal policy formation, policy change and policy impact. This unique text offers new insights and areas to research in this important field of American politics.
Emerging Issues in Public Policy
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public administration
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description