The Rise and Fall of American Public Schools - The Political Economy of Public Education in the 20th Century

Klappentext This volume provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of the state of American public education. It examines the trend in the quality of the public schools over the past 100 years, and reviews the possible reasons for a decline in quality. The work focuses on the importance of local control in American public education and how it has been steadily eroded. Franciosi advocates school choice as a way of restoring greater control by parents over their children's schools. This work is distinct among calls for reform in that it takes a skeptical attitude towards the centralized school reform movement that has culminated in the No Child Left Behind Act. It discusses important topics that have been the subject of research including the effect of teachers unions, Tiebout competition and local control, and school finance reform. Zusammenfassung Offers a comprehensive and balanced evaluation of the state of public education in the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Robert J Franciosi, Robert J. Franciosi, Franciosi Robert J.
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2004
• EAN: 9780275976873
• ISBN: 978-0-275-97687-3
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; EDUCATION / General, Education, Current Events and Issues: Education