Author: Barry E. SternPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Toward a Federal Policy on Education and Work
Author: Barry E. SternPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Toward a Federal Policy on Education and Work
Author: Barry E. SternToward a Comprehensive Federal Education Policy
Author: United States. Federal Interagency Committee on EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Higher Education Opportunity Act
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Toward a Federal Strategy for Protection of the Consumer of Education
Author: United States. Federal Interagency Committee on EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumer protection
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Education and Economic Progress Toward a National Education Policy
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.
Education Quality and Federal Policy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Education and EmploymentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Toward a Federal Strategy for Protection of the Consumer of Education
Author: United States. Federal Interagency Committee on Education. Subcommittee on Educational Consumer ProtectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumer protection
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
When Federalism Works
Author: Paul E. PetersonPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815720491
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Twenty years ago cooperative federalism, in the form of federal grant-in-aid programs administered by state and local governments, was applauded almost without reservation as the best means of helping the handicapped, the educationally disadvantaged, the poor, and other groups with special needs. More recently these same programs have been criticized for excessive regulations and red tape, bureaucratic ineptitude, and high cost. The criticisms have been used to justify efforts to curb federal domestic spending and terminate many grants-in-aid. In When Federalism Works, Paul E. Peterson, Barry G. Rabe, and Kenneth K. Wong examine the new conventional wisdom about federal grants. Through documentary research and hundreds of interviews with local, state, and federal administrators and elected officials, they consider the implementation and operation of federal programs for education, health care, and housing in four urban areas to learn which programs worked, when, and why. Why did rent subsidy programs encounter seemingly endless difficulties, while special education was a notable success? Why did compensatory education fare better in Milwaukee than in Baltimore? Among the factors the authors find significant are the extent to which a program is directed toward groups in need, the political and economic circumstances of the area in which it is implemented, and the degree of professionalism among those who administer it at all levels of government. When Federalism Works provides a solid introduction to the most important grant-in-aid programs of the past twenty years and a thoughtful assessment of where they might be going.