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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Education Commission of the States.

Epstein, Noel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School boards--United States.

School boards.

Education and state--United States.

Education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Denver : Education Commission of the States ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 consequences for the students.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610813049

9781280813047

1280813040

9780815796657

081579665X

OCLC:

475994869