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Manna, Paul, Ed.; McGuinn, Patrick, Ed. – Brookings Institution Press, 2013
America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in areas such as standards, testing, teachers, or…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Administration, Failure, Decision Making
Schmidt, William H.; Blomeke, Sigrid; Tatto, Maria Teresa – Teachers College Press, 2011
Based on a major international teacher education research project--the Mathematics Teaching in the 21st Century Study (MT21)--this book investigates the pre-service preparation of middle school mathematics teachers in the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Bulgaria, and Mexico. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Curriculum, Test Results, Foreign Countries
Parrish, Thomas B., Ed.; Chambers, Jay G., Ed.; Guarino, Cassandra M., Ed. – 1999
This book calls for changes in special-education fiscal policy, claiming that special-education finances need to be more fully incorporated into education-finance literature and fiscal-policy discussions. The first few chapters discuss fiscal and program-policy funding in the United States and in Europe. They trace the history of federal…
Descriptors: Categorical Aid, Comparative Analysis, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance