From National Planning to Classroom Practice: Comparing Education in Two Low-Income Districts, Port City, USA and Montvelier, France - Couverture souple

Slocum, Sasha

 
9783639016475: From National Planning to Classroom Practice: Comparing Education in Two Low-Income Districts, Port City, USA and Montvelier, France
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639016475 ISBN 13 : 9783639016475
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Advanced industrialized countries share an "achievement gap" between students from low-income and high-income school districts, despite the different structures of their governments. This book examines the relationship between national planning and education in two urban school districts, Port City, USA and Montvelier, France. Through interviews with teachers and administrators and observations of classrooms in both settings, this book analyzes whether educational decision-making in the school districts has evolved toward national planning goals. Four education policy issues focus the discussion: depth of content, delivery of content, assessment and accountability, and funding. Both school districts demonstrate successful attempts to meet national goals; although historical, cultural and institutional constraints limit how much ground-level implementers (teachers) are able and willing to meet those goals.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Advanced industrialized countries share an "achievement gap" between students from low-income and high-income school districts, despite the different structures of their governments. This book examines the relationship between national planning and education in two urban school districts, Port City, USA and Montvelier, France. Through interviews with teachers and administrators and observations of classrooms in both settings, this book analyzes whether educational decision-making in the school districts has evolved toward national planning goals. Four education policy issues focus the discussion: depth of content, delivery of content, assessment and accountability, and funding. Both school districts demonstrate successful attempts to meet national goals; although historical, cultural and institutional constraints limit how much ground-level implementers (teachers) are able and willing to meet those goals.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ph.D., Brandeis University, Politics; Ed.M. Harvard University, Administration, Planning and Social Policy; Social Studies Teacher, The Barack Obama Academy, Plainfield, NJ.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639016475
ISBN 13 
9783639016475
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
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Personne responsable
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