History and educational policymaking / Maris A. Vinovskis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vinovskis, Maris A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--United States.

Education and state.

Education--United States--History.

Education.

Federal aid to education--United States.

Federal aid to education.

Education--Research--United States.

Education and state--United States--History.

Education--United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 336 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book an eminent scholar and policymaker analyzes the lessons history can teach those who wish to reform the American educational system.Maris Vinovskis begins by tracing the evolving role of the federal government in educational research, providing a historical perspective at a time when there is some movement to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. He then focuses on early childhood education, exploring trends in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He examines the troubling history of the Follow Through Program, which existed from 1967 to 1994 to help Head Start children make the transition into the regular schools, and he reviews the development of the Even Start Program, which works to improve the literacy of disadvantaged parents while providing early childhood education for their children. He discusses changing views toward the economic benefits of education and critically assesses the validity and usefulness of the idea of systemic or standards-based reform. Finally he develops a conceptual framework for mapping and analyzing education research and reform activities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1. History and Policymaking

Part 2. The Federal Role in Educational Research and Statistics

Part 3. Early Childhood Education

Part 4. Other Research and Reform Efforts

Conclusion: The Uses of History in Educational Policymaking

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-329) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300147223

0300147228

9780585356587

0585356580

OCLC:

1024015601