Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century by Paul Man... - 9780815723943

Education Governance for the Twenty-First CenturyOvercoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform\nAuthor(s): Paul Manna, Patrick McGuinn\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Brookings Institution\nISBN-13: 9780815723943, 978-0815723943\nSynopsis\nAmerica'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 school choice requires careful analysis of the broader governing arrangements that influence their content, implementation, and impact.\nEducation Governance for the Twenty-First Century comprehensively assesses the strengths and weaknesses of what remains of the old in education governance, scrutinizes how traditional governance forms are changing, and n