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The editors have collected original papers dealing with the impact of commissions on educational policy and reform. This book is a combination of the perspectives of practitioners directly involved with writing or reacting to commission reports, and scholars analyzing the significance and impact of educational policy. Chapters are written by some of the country's leading authorities on education. This book will prove to be a valuable resource for educators, administrators, political scientists, sociologists, and others interested in the state of education. Includes a foreword by Paul E. Peterson of Harvard University.
List of contents
Foreword by Paul E. Peterson
IntroductionCommissions and Change by Rick Ginsberg and David N. Plank
Producers and Consumers of Reform ReportsA Nation at Risk: Ugly Duckling No Longer by Milton Goldberg and Anita Madan Renton
A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century: The Report of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy's Task Force on Teaching as a Profession by Marc Tucker
Committee for Economic Development: Shaping Policies and Partnerships for America's Children by Laurie Miller McNeill and Sandra Kessler Hamburg
Impact of Commission Reports in the South and on South Carolina's Comprehensive School Reform Efforts of the 1980s by Richard W. Riley and Terry K. Peterson
Using Task Forces in Local Educational Agencies to Develop Educational Policy by Richard C. Wallace, Jr., Patricia Crawford, and Mary Ellen Kirby
Analyzing Reform Reports: From Content to ImpactThe Rhetoric of School Reform Reports: Scared, Skeptical, and Cynical Interpretations by Noreen B. Garman and Patricia C. Holland
Summits, Task Forces, and Commissions as Ceremonial Dance by Terrence E. Deal
Substance and Symbolism in the Education of Commission Reports by Lars G. Björk
Teacher Professionalism and the Commission Reports: The Prospects for Creating a Learner-Centered Profession of Teaching by Linda Darling-Hammond and Barnett Berry
Reform Reports: Omissions and CommissionsGender and the Reports: The Case of the Missing Piece by Lois Weis
Minorities and Educational Reform: A Question of Equity and Excellence by Tom Thompson
Why Do Educational Reform Commissions Fail to Address Special Education? by Michael M. Gerber and Melvyn I. Semmel
Effective Schools.and Beyond by Charles L. Glenn
EpilogueThe Future of Reform Commissions by Rick Ginsberg and David N. Plank
Index
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Rick Ginsberg, David Plank
