Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned

ISBN-13: 9781682532171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

Frederick M. Hess; Michael Q. McShane

Opis

Examines the shifting federal role in education across the presidential administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. While the administrations were vastly different, one thing remained constant: an ongoing and significant expansion of the federal role in education.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane
• 1. Testing and Accountability
• What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go?
• Deven Carlson
• 2. The Limits of Policy for School Turnaround
• Ashley Jochim
• 3. Incentives and Inducements
• The Feds Fight Federalism
• Patrick McGuinn
• 4. Federal Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality
• Matthew A. Kraft
• 5. The Bush-Obama Agenda for Education Research and Innovation
• Major Investment, Mixed Returns
• Robert Pianta and Tara Hofkens
• 6. Why Standards Produce Weak Reform
• Tom Loveless
• 7. Federal Support for Charter Schooling
• A Presidential Priority
• Anna J. Egalite
• 8. Challenging, Building, and Changing Capacity in State Education Agencies
• Sara E. Dahill-Brown
• 9. Sound and Fury
• Education and Civil Rights in the Bush and Obama Administrations
• Joshua Dunn
• Conclusion
• Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors