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Assessment, bureaucracy, and consolidation : the issues facing schools today / Donald Parkerson and Jo Ann Parkerson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parkerson, Donald Hugh, author.
- Parkerson, Jo Ann, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--United States--Evaluation.
- Education.
- Education--Standards--United States.
- School management and organization--United States.
- School management and organization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (159 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Today American schools are typically large, consolidated, bureaucratic organizations controlled by state and/or municipal governments. This book examines the remarkable transformation in the form and function of education and assesses the problems and possibilities for the future of schools and our nation.
- Contents:
- The world we have lost
- Assessment, bureaucracy and consolidation
- Seizing the schools : states and municipalities take control
- The consolidation century
- Embracing the corporate model
- The roots of standardized assessment
- Testing in schools
- Problems in corporate and school bureaucracy
- What have we done?
- What is to be done?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4758-1702-9
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