Description - Education Policy for the 21st Century by Lawrence B. Joseph
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.
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