Author: Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Resources in Education
Author: Exceptional Child Education Abstracts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Public Management: Policy making, ethics and accountability in public management
Author: Stephen P. OsbornePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415267151
Category : Civil service ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Since the 1980s, the public sector has been undergoing major changes throughout the Western industrialized world, the transitional economies of central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and South East Asia. The main thrust of these changes has been to bring public sector management practices closer to those of the private sector. This raises the question of how far public and private sector management are comparable. This set examines the relationships between public sector and private sector management in terms of both classical management theory and the new public management that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. While the collection concentrates on articles from the last 20 years, some historical pieces are also included. The four volumes are arranged along the following lines: volume 1 - for and against the public sector; volume 2 - managing the plural state; volume 3 - broadening the public management perspective; and volume 4 - from policy to practice in public services.
Federal Programs for Young Children: Review and Recommendations
Author: Massachusetts Study of Educational Opportunities for Handicapped and Disadvantaged Children
Author: Massachusetts Advisory Council on EducationPublisher:
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Category : Children with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Special Education at the Century's End
Author: Thomas HehirPublisher: Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book compiles thirteen articles, which together trace the development of contemporary special education from a period of anticipation and promise to the current era of controversy and uncertainty.
Reforming Special Education
Author: Richard WeatherleyPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Focusing on Massachusetts' innovative special education reform law, Chapter 766, "Reforming Special Education" traces the complex processes through which an ostensibly universalistic and equitable policy can produce a biased distribution of public benefits favoring affluent clients."Reforming Special Education" examines three Massachusetts school systems and seven schools within those systems to determine whether laws formulated to alter practices in educating children who are deaf, blind, retarded, and physically handicapped actually result in fair and uniform treatment of children with special needs, or whether they just create more work for school personnel.The book discusses individual and community wealth as factors in the allocation of funds. Despite Massachusetts' "equalizing formula," it points out that rich districts often fare better than poor ones because they have the resources and sophistication necessary to challenge funding decisions. The book also reveals that bureaucrats who are charged with carrying out the changes are victimized by new laws which, for lack of resources, they cannot hope to put into effect. Because the street-level bureaucrats, front-line personnel, develop informal means of coping with these problems and with their jobs, they distort the policy they are charged with implementing and become policy makers in their own right.Weatherley concludes that policy initiatives must take into account potential effects on the daily work routines of those charged with implementing them. These findings have dramatic implications for all human service bureaucracies where front-line staff interact with the public--hospitals, police departments, public welfare and employment offices, mental health centers and lower courts. Students of public policy, educators, social workers, or anyone involved in public service employment will find this a scholarly, yet highly readable account of the organizational constraints to bureaucratic reform.
Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds in Summary
Author: United States. Community Services AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Federal Outlays in Summary
Author: United States. Community Services AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Includes data for the executive branch of the Federal Government only.