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- catalog abstract ""Section 1 of American Educational Governance on Trial: Change and Challenges explores the issues and the implications associated with the performance and legitimacy crises. Section 2 presents alternative views about how to "fix" the educational governance system, including perspectives on systemic design, school finance, and choice options. Section 3 is devoted to rethinking the governance of school districts, with discussions on mayoral and state take overs, teacher unions, community involvement, the superintendency, and reconstitution of failing systems, along with a look at the Supreme Court's Zelman decision. Section 4 concludes the volume with reflections on state and federal roles in governance - past, present, and future."--Jacket.".
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- catalog created "2003".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003".
- catalog description ""Section 1 of American Educational Governance on Trial: Change and Challenges explores the issues and the implications associated with the performance and legitimacy crises. Section 2 presents alternative views about how to "fix" the educational governance system, including perspectives on systemic design, school finance, and choice options. Section 3 is devoted to rethinking the governance of school districts, with discussions on mayoral and state take overs, teacher unions, community involvement, the superintendency, and reconstitution of failing systems, along with a look at the Supreme Court's Zelman decision. Section 4 concludes the volume with reflections on state and federal roles in governance - past, present, and future."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "Sec. I. Why is educational governance on trial? Public education's crisis of performance and legitimacy: rationale and overview of the yearbook / William Lowe Boyd -- Accountability, assessment, and performance issues: we've come a long way, or have we? / Jane Hannaway -- Liberty, democracy, and community: legitimacy in public education / Kenneth Strike -- Sec. II. How to fix the educational governance system. What's wrong with public education governance in big cities and how should it be fixed? / Paul T. Hill -- Rethinking the finance system for improved student achievement / Allan Odden, Sarah Archibald and Mark Fermanich -- Breaking the mold: charter schools, contract schools, and voucher plans / Frederick M. Hess -- Sec. III. Rethinking the governance of school districts. Vouchers, the Supreme Court, and the next political rounds / Tyll van Geel -- Rethinking the role of the community / Luvern Cunningham -- Rethinking the urban school superintendency: nontraditional leaders and new models of leadership / Joseph M. Cronin and Michael D. Usdan -- Mayoral influence, new regimes, and public school governance / Michael W. Kirst -- "Ravening tigers" under siege: teacher union legitimacy and institutional turmoil / Charles Taylor Kerchner and Bruce S. Cooper -- Educational bankruptcy, takeovers, and reconstitution / James Cibulka -- Sec. IV. Rethinking the state and federal roles in educational governance. Rethinking the roles of states and educational governance / Carolyn Herrington and Frances Fowler -- From the White House to the schoolhouse: greater demands and new roles / Jack Jennings.".
- catalog extent "viii, 318 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0226069702".
- catalog isPartOf "Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 0077-5762 ; 102nd, pt. 1".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago, Ill. : National Society for the Study of Education : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Education and state United States.".
- catalog subject "Educational accountability United States.".
- catalog subject "LB2806.22 .A445 2003".
- catalog subject "LB5 .N25 v.102 pt.1".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sec. I. Why is educational governance on trial? Public education's crisis of performance and legitimacy: rationale and overview of the yearbook / William Lowe Boyd -- Accountability, assessment, and performance issues: we've come a long way, or have we? / Jane Hannaway -- Liberty, democracy, and community: legitimacy in public education / Kenneth Strike -- Sec. II. How to fix the educational governance system. What's wrong with public education governance in big cities and how should it be fixed? / Paul T. Hill -- Rethinking the finance system for improved student achievement / Allan Odden, Sarah Archibald and Mark Fermanich -- Breaking the mold: charter schools, contract schools, and voucher plans / Frederick M. Hess -- Sec. III. Rethinking the governance of school districts. Vouchers, the Supreme Court, and the next political rounds / Tyll van Geel -- Rethinking the role of the community / Luvern Cunningham -- Rethinking the urban school superintendency: nontraditional leaders and new models of leadership / Joseph M. Cronin and Michael D. Usdan -- Mayoral influence, new regimes, and public school governance / Michael W. Kirst -- "Ravening tigers" under siege: teacher union legitimacy and institutional turmoil / Charles Taylor Kerchner and Bruce S. Cooper -- Educational bankruptcy, takeovers, and reconstitution / James Cibulka -- Sec. IV. Rethinking the state and federal roles in educational governance. Rethinking the roles of states and educational governance / Carolyn Herrington and Frances Fowler -- From the White House to the schoolhouse: greater demands and new roles / Jack Jennings.".
- catalog title "American educational governance on trial : change and challenges / edited by William Lowe Boyd and Debra Miretzky.".
- catalog type "text".