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The ERIC Review
Provides information on programs, research, publications, and services of ERIC, as well as critical and current education information.
The Curriculum
This new edition of the classic text extends the scope of critically-oriented work in curriculum studies.
An Education in Politics
Since the early 1990s, the federal role in education—exemplified by the controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)—has expanded dramatically. Yet states and localities have retained a central role in education policy, leading to a growing struggle for control over the direction of the nation's schools. In An Education in Politics, Jesse H. Rhodes explains the uneven development of federal involvement in education. While supporters of expanded federal involvement enjoyed some success in bringing new ideas to the federal policy agenda, Rhodes argues, they also encountered stiff resistance from proponents of local control. Built atop existing decentralized policies, new federal reforms r...
Collision Course
What happens when federal officials try to accomplish goals that depend on the resources and efforts of state and local governments? Focusing on the nation′s experience with the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Manna′s engaging case study considers just that question. Beyond the administrative challenges NCLB unleashed, Collision Course examines the dynamics at work when federal policymakers hold state and local governments accountable for results. Ambitions for higher performance collide with governing structures and practices. Were the collisions valuable for their potential to transform education policy, or has the law inflicted too much damage on state and local institutions responsi...
Theories of Local Economic Development
Presenting state-of-the-art theoretical positions on important development issues such as the inner city, technological innovation and rebuilding economic infrastructure are explored in this volume. The contributors to this volume, drawn from various social science backgrounds, explore a variety of theories and examine them in relation to the practical actions of local economic development.
Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education
This document reports on two days of congressional hearings held to examine educational budgetary issues for fiscal year 1993 and beyond. The statements of the following persons are included in the proceedings: Gordon M. Ambach, Council of Chief State School Officers and Committee for Economic Development; Hon. William E. Brock, Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, Department of Labor; Nancy Coolidge, Office of the President, University of California; Charlotte J. Fraas, Congressional Research Service; Sandra Kessler Hamburg, Committee for Economic Development; D. Bruce Johnstone, State University of New York (SUNY); Roberts T. Jones, Department of Labor; Donald J. Nolan, New York State Education Department, representing State Higher Education Executive Officers Association; Hon. Ted Sanders, Department of Education (accompanied by Sally H. Christensen, Director of Budget Services, and Bruno Manno, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement). Prepared statements submitted by these witnesses and others are also included. (DB)
Business Education and Training
The sixth volume of an important series on education and business co-published with Oxford University Center for the Study of Values in Education and Business, this book highlights the tensions involved in the interplay between competitive universities and businesses. The papers are the results of academic study across the globe, and examine the intersection of the business world with the educational process. Business schools, organizational transformation, corporal punishment, and various world models of education are explored.
School's in
Manna explores the dynamics of forty years of education policymaking to answer a puzzling question: if state and local governments are the primary caretakers of elementary and secondary education, how have federal policymakers so greatly expanded their involvement in the country's schools since 1965? From Lyndon B. Johnson's signing of the carefully worded funding bill, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to George W. Bush's imposing but underfunded "No Child Left Behind" initiative, Washington's influence over America's schools has increased signficantly. At the same time, the states have developed more comprehensive, and often innovative education policies. A wide array of e...
