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Index
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
From Local Schools to Central Control
Reference
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART I Historical and Theoretical Context
1 THE SURPRISING HISTORY OF EDUCATION POLICY 1950 TO 2010
Schooling in America: Taking a 1950 Perspective
Dramatic and Surprising Policy Shifts Produced but Halting School Change
Theoretical Explanations
Opening and Closing Policy Windows
Competing Paradigms of Social Explanation
Goal-Oriented Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Marketplace Exchange Theory
Symbolic Interaction Theory
The Paradigms Clash
Core Social Values
Liberty, the Basic Value
Quality, the Justification for Policy
Efficiency, the Critique of Quality
Equity, the Redress Value
Shifting Values Make for Surprising Policies
Conclusion
References
2 AN ENDURING ISSUE
Purpose and Perspective
Analytic Assumptions
Data Limitations
The Evolutionary and Revolutionary Shift in the Locus and Balance of Power
The Intensification of Federal Controls
The Intensification of State Controls
The Contraction of Local Options
The New Balance of Power
Democratic Governance as a Mechanism for Enhancing Educational Effectiveness
Mixed Reviews of “Local Democracy” Experiments
Mixed Reviews of Centralized Controls
Alternative Takes on the Mixed Reviews
Closing Observations
Notes
References
PART II The Fundamental Issues
3 THE INFLUENCE OF PRACTICE ON POLICY1
Policy and Practice
Infrastructure and Politics
Effects of Weak Governance
Paradoxes of Policy, Politics, and Practice
Notes
References
4 EDUCATION POLITICS AND POLICY IN AN ERA OF EVIDENCE
Introduction
The Way It Was
Challenges and Changes
Reckoning, Realignment, and Resistance
A New Day?
References
5 THE MARKET FOR SCHOOLING
Introduction
The Historical Evolution of Educational Choice
Drivers of Marketization
Economic Theory and Markets
Effects of Markets
Possible Advantages of Markets
Possible Disadvantages of Markets
Prospects for the Future
Notes
References
PART III The Foundations of Educational Equity
References
6 CIVIL RIGHTS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
School Governance and Individual Students’ Rights
First Amendment Expression Rights
Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights
Eighth Amendment and Corporal Punishment
Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure
Expression and Search and Seizure Cases from the 1980s Onward
The Civil Rights of Social Groups
Civil Rights—the 1970s and Onward
Special Education
Western and Northern Desegregation
Rights of Language Minorities in Schools
Sex Discrimination
Undocumented Students
Notes
References
Court Cases
Published Works
7 EDUCATION POLITICS AND EQUITY POLICY SINCE 1950
Introduction
Purpose of the Chapter
Five Political Challenges, Five Education Policies
A Framework for Analysis
Interest Group Participation
Power Resources
1. Schools and Racial Desegregation
2. Federal Educational Programs for the Poor and Limited English Proficient
3. Politics of Fiscal Equity
4. Federal Legislation for Children with Special Needs
5. No Child Left Behind and National Standards
Politics and Policy: Changes and Developments
Conclusion
References
PART IV Globalization
8 CURRICULUM POLICY AND EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
The Logic of Expansion and the Contest for Position
Civil Rights Revolution and the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
The Quest for Inclusion
The End of Tracking
Standards, Assessments, and Accountability
Sputnik and International Competitiveness
The New Latin
What’s Measured Matters Most
The Push for National Standards
Who Decides?
The Trend toward Centralization
Accountability for Educators
Unions and the Business Lobby
Summary
Curriculum Wars
Traditional and Reform Pedagogy
Canonical Knowledge
Science and Religion
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Summary
Conclusion
Notes
References
9 PATH DEPENDENCE IN GERMAN AND AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION
Path Dependence and Institutional Analysis—Some Essentials
Path Dependence and the Institutionalization of Beliefs
Institutional Paths of Education in Germany and the United States
Germany
The Founding Conditions
Education as Lever for National Rebuilding
United States
Resistance Against School Centralization
Mass Immigration: A Window of Opportunity for Change
Summing Up: Different Origins and Purposes of Public Schooling in the Two Countries
Reaffirmation Trumps Reeducation (1945–1950)
Potsdam and Reeducation
The Zook Report: The Common School Meets the Gymnasium
Hundhammer’s War
Summary
The Gesamtschul-Reform
Discussion: Implications for Policy and Theory
Two Paths of Education
Understanding Policy Differences
Implications for Theory
Note
References
PART V Major Efforts to Improve School Performance
10 GOVERNANCE IN URBAN SCHOOL SYSTEMS
Organization Stability in School Districts
Multiple Challenges on Accountability
New Institutional Boundaries in School Governance: Two Perspectives
Governing Regimes
Applying Regime Theory to Urban Education
Integrated Governance: Mayoral Leadership and Educational Accountability
Promising Evidence on School Improvement
Conclusions
Note
References
11 EDUCATION AS CIVIC GOOD
Introduction
Background: The Services Coordination Movement Historically
Improving the Community Context for Learning
Improving the Community’s Support of Classroom Learning
School-Community Partnering for Instructional Improvement
Conclusion
References
PART VI Looking to the Future of Public Schooling
Reference
12 THE POLITICS OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM
Shifting Policy Processes
Educational Policy Making in Mid-20th Century
Civil Right Struggles in the Schools
The Struggle for Collective Bargaining
The Sputnik Challenge
Entrepreneurial Policy Making Since the 1980s.
State and Federal Standard Setting
Market-Making in Education
Conclusion
Notes
References
13 WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED ABOUT SHAPING EDUCATION POLICY?
References
CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES
INDEX
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