Handbook of education policy research / edited by Gary Sykes, Barbara Schneider, David N. Plank ; with Timothy G. Ford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ford, Timothy G.

Plank, David N. (David Nathan), 1954-

Schneider, Barbara L.

Sykes, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--Research--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Education and state.

Education--Political aspects.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1062 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge ; [Washington, D.C.] : American Educational Research Association, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Co-published by Routledge for the American Educational Research Association (AERA)Educational policy continues to be of major concern. Policy debates about economic growth and national competitiveness, for example, commonly focus on the importance of human capital and a highly educated workforce. Defining the theoretical boundaries and methodological approaches of education policy research are the two primary themes of this comprehensive, AERA-sponsored Handbook.Organized into seven sections, the Handbook focuses on (1) disciplinary fo

Contents:

Cover; HANDBOOK OF EDUCATION POLICY RESEARCH; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I Social Science Disciplines and Education Policy Research; 1 Historians and Educational Policy Research in the United States; 2 Policy Research in Education: The Economic View; 3 The Economic Value of Education and Cognitive Skills; 4 A Political Science Perspective on Education Policy Analysis; 5 Perspectives from the Disciplines: Sociological Contributions to Education Policy Research and Debates; 6 Current Approaches to Research in Anthropology and Education

7 Making Education Research More Policy-Analytic8 COMMENTARY: Disciplined Education Policy Research; 9 COMMENTARY: The Disciplinary Foundations of Education Policy Research; Section II Conducting Policy Research: Methodological Perspectives; 10 Separate Orbits: The Distinctive Worlds of Educational Research and Policymaking; 11 The Use of Randomized Trials to Inform Education Policy; 12 Causal Inference in Non-Experimental Educational Policy Research; 13 Research Synthesis and Education Policy; 14 Complementary Methods for Policy Research; 15 Assessment Policy: Making Sense of the Babel

16 Scale-Up as a Framework for Intervention, Program, and Policy Evaluation Research17 COMMENTARY: Conducting Policy Research: Methodological Perspectives; 18 COMMENTARY: An Applied Perspective on Research, Method, and Policy; Section III Politics and the Policy Process; 19 Education and Domination: Reforming Policy and Practice through Critical Theory; 20 Race, Ethnicity, and Education; 21 Race(ing), Class(ing), and Gender(ing) Our Work: Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Feminism, Epistemology, and New Directions in Educational Policy Research

22 Rhetoric and Symbolic Action in the Policy Process23 The Role of Law in Educational Policy Formation, Implementation, and Research; 24 Teacher Collective Bargaining: What We Know and What We Need to Know; 25 The Voice of the People in Education; 26 Assessment Policy and Politics of Information; 27 What Works in Defining "What Works" in Educational Improvement: Lessons from Education Policy Implementation Research, Directions for Future Research; 28 Conceptualizing Policy Implementation: Large-Scale Reform in an Era of Complexity

29 Public Choice and the Political Economy of American Education30 Research in the Policy Process; 31COMMENTARY: Politics and the Policy Process; 32 COMMENTARY: Getting "Critically Real"' About the State of Education Politics and Policy Process Research; Section IV Policy Implications of Educational Resources, Management, and Organization; 33 Notes on Reframing the Role of Organizations in Policy Implementation: Resources for Practice, in Practice; 34 What Do We Know About Reducing Class and School Size?

35 Conceptions, Measurement, and Application of Educational Adequacy and Equal Educational Opportunity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-135-85646-X

1-282-06533-5

1-78034-690-5

9786612065330

0-203-88096-X

9780203880968

OCLC:

476265583