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Education Policy for the 21St Century:

Challenges and Opportunities in Standards-Based Reform
  • ISBN-13: 9780962675560
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Lawrence B. Joseph
  • Price: AUD $45.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/2001
  • Format: Paperback 384 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Research methods: general [GPS]
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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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