Who's in charge here? [electronic resource] : the tangled web of school governance and policy / Noel Epstein, editor.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Denver : Education Commission of the States ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.Description: ix, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 379.1/531 22
LOC classification:
  • LB2831 .W53 2004eb
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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