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Splintered Accountability

State Governance and Education Reform

By: Arnold F. Shober

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Splintered Accountability

State Governance and Education Reform

By: Arnold F. Shober

Detailed study of how real education reform works.

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State University of New York Press

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1438430779

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9781438430775

The Democratic Dilemma of American Education

Out of Many, One?

By: Arnold Shober

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The Democratic Dilemma of American Education

Out of Many, One?

By: Arnold Shober

This compelling new book asks: How can American education policy be consistent with democratic ideals? Robust democracy is the combination of participation, self-rule, equality, understanding, and inclusion, but these norms can produce contradictory policy. Local control in education policy can undermine educational equality. Participation in teachers unions can improve working conditions but thwart self-rule by local taxpayers. The Democratic Dilemma of American Education draws on contemporary research in political science and education policy to offer remarkably balanced insights into these challenging issues. Expertly navigating through local, state, and federal layers of education policy, Arnold Shober examines contemporary controversies over education governance, teachers unions and collective bargaining, school funding, school choice, academic accountability, and desegregation. Shober describes the inherent practical dilemmas of current policy and the difficulties policymakers face in overcoming them to produce lasting educational reform in a democratic, federal system of government. Timely, engaging, and accessible, this is the ideal resource for courses in public policy as well as education and politics.

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Routledge

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0429972512

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9780429972515

In Common No More

The Politics of the Common Core State Standards

By: Arnold F. Shober

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In Common No More

The Politics of the Common Core State Standards

By: Arnold F. Shober

When did the Common Core evolve from pet project to pariah among educators and parents? This book examines the rise and fall of our national education standards from their inception to the present day. Parents, teachers, and political groups have waged debates over the Common Core since the standards' adoption in 2010. This timely examination explores the shifting political alliances related to the Common Core State Standards Initiative, explains why initial national support has faded, and considers the major debates running through the Common Core controversy. The book is organized around four themes of political conflict: federal versus state control, minorities versus majorities, experts versus professionals, and elites versus local preferences. The work reviews the politics of state and national standards, evaluating the political arguments for and against the Common Core: federal overreach, lack of evidence for effectiveness, lack of parental control, lack of teacher input, improper adaptive testing, overtesting, and connections to private education-reform funders and foundations. The work includes a short primer on the Common Core State Standards Initiative as well as on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balance, two state-level organizations that have worked on the standards. An informative appendix presents brief descriptions of major interest groups and think tanks involved with the standards initiative along with a timeline of American educational standards reforms and the Common Core.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440837716

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Splintered Accountability

State Governance and Education Reform

By: Arnold F. Shober

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State Governance and Education Reform

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Detailed study of how real education reform works.

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