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Education Policy for the 21st Century
Challenges and Opportunities in Standards-Based Reform
Edited by Lawrence B. Joseph
Paper978-0-9626755-6-0
$20.00
| Pub Date: | 2001 |
| Pages: | 384 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9 in. |
| Illustrations: | 31 Tables |
Amid widespread concern that schools are failing to prepare students for workforce participation, higher education, and the economic and technological challenges of the twenty-first century, public school reform efforts across the nation have focused increasingly on standards, performance, and accountability. A particularly critical question involves improving educational opportunities for children in poverty and for other "at-risk" students who represent an increasing proportion of public school enrollment. Education Policy for the 21st Century examines a range of key issues in standards-based education reform. Contributors focus on educational trends and issues in metropolitan Chicago, state education policy in Illinois, lessons of Chicago school reform, and standards-based, systemic reform in other states. The volume also includes chapters on standards and assessment in school accountability systems, effects of school spending on student achievement, and "building-level" obstacles to urban school reform. Presenting valuable data and a variety of perspectives, this book illuminates both the challenges and opportunities presented by standards-based education reform.
Subjects:
Education / Chicago / Public Administration / Urban History / Studies
Distributed for the Center for Urban Research and Policy Studies, University of Chicago
