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Assessment, Bureaucracy, and Consolidation : The Issues Facing Schools Today.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (159 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781475817027
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Assessment, Bureaucracy, and ConsolidationDDC classification:
  • 370.973
LOC classification:
  • LA217.2 -- .P374 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The World We Have Lost -- 2 Assessment, Bureaucracy, and Consolidation -- 3 Seizing the Schools: States and Municipalities Take Control -- 4 The Consolidation Century -- 5 Embracing the Corporate Model -- 6 The Roots of Standardized Assessment -- 7 Testing in Schools -- 8 Problems of Bureaucracies: Business and Education -- 9 What Have We Done? -- 10 What Is to Be Done -- References -- Index.
Summary: Today American schools are typically large, consolidated, bureaucratic organizations controlled by state and/or municipal governments. This bookexamines the remarkable transformation in the form and function of education and assesses the problems and possibilities for the future of schools and our nation.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The World We Have Lost -- 2 Assessment, Bureaucracy, and Consolidation -- 3 Seizing the Schools: States and Municipalities Take Control -- 4 The Consolidation Century -- 5 Embracing the Corporate Model -- 6 The Roots of Standardized Assessment -- 7 Testing in Schools -- 8 Problems of Bureaucracies: Business and Education -- 9 What Have We Done? -- 10 What Is to Be Done -- References -- Index.

Today American schools are typically large, consolidated, bureaucratic organizations controlled by state and/or municipal governments. This bookexamines the remarkable transformation in the form and function of education and assesses the problems and possibilities for the future of schools and our nation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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