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

Parkerson, Donald.

Assessment, Bureaucracy, and Consolidation : The Issues Facing Schools Today. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (159 pages)

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.

9781475817027


Education - Standards - United States.


Electronic books.

LA217.2 -- .P374 2015eb

370.973

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