Beschreibung:
This book focuses commentary and analysis on some of the most pressing policy challenges facing public school educators and those invested in a healthy, vibrant public-school system. Each chapter contains stimulating ideas, useful information, and practical tips for school practitioners, higher education faculty, and constituent groups.
Foreword: Education Policy Reform: A Tale of Haunting; Introduction; 1 Corporate Networks' Grip on the Public School Sector and Education Policy; 2 Neoliberalism as a Policy Ventriloquist: Deconstructing the Discourse of Corporate America for its Public Schools; 3. Threats to Meaningful Reform of Civic Education; 4. Brown versus Board Did Not Work: Finding a New Pathway to Educational Justice; 5. Charter Schools' Impact on Public Education: Theory versus Reality; 6. OECD, PISA, and Globalization: The Influence of the International Assessment Regime; 7. Students as the Missing Actor in Education Reform; 8. We Come from Everywhere: Innovating Bi/Multilingual Principal Preparation Programs; 9. Evaluating the Different SIDES of Education Policies: A Practical Policy Analysis Framework for School Leaders