Children as pawns : the politics of educational reform / Timothy A. Hacsi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hacsi, Timothy A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--United States.

Education and state.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Educational evaluation--United States.

Educational evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text brings together the history of educational policy and politics with the research evidence. Timothy Hacsi sifts through the complicated evaluation research literature and compares the policies that have been adopted to the best evidence about what actually works.

Head Start. Bilingual education. Small class size. Social promotion. School funding. Virtually every school system in America has had to face these issues over the past thirty years. Advocates and dissenters have declared confidently that "the research" is on their side. But is it? In the first book to bring together the recent history of educational policy and politics with the research evidence, Timothy Hacsi presents the illuminating, often-forgotten stories of these five controversial topics. He sifts through the complicated evaluation research literature and compares the policies that have been adopted to the best evidence about what actually works. He lucidly explains what the major studies show, what they don't, and how they have been misunderstood and misrepresented. Hacsi shows how rarely educational policies are based on solid research evidence, and how programs that sound plausible simply do not satisfy the complex needs of real children.

Contents:

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. What Difference Does Head Start Make? 2. Is Bilingual Education a Good Idea? 3. Does Class Size Matter? 4. Is Social Promotion a Problem? 5. Does More Money Make Schools Better? Conclusion Notes Suggested Readings Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674264168

0674264169

9780674038127

0674038126

OCLC:

923116957