Education Policy for the 21st Century

by Joseph, Lawrence B.

• ISBN13: 9780962675560
• ISBN10: 0962675563
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

"Amid widespread concern that schools are failing to prepare students for workforce participation, higher education, and the economic and technological challenges of the twenty-first century, public school reform efforts across the nation have focused increasingly on standards, performance, and accountability. A particularly critical question involves improving educational opportunities for children in poverty and for other ""at-risk"" students who represent an increasing proportion of public school enrollment.Education Policy for the 21st Century examines a range of key issues in standards-based education reform. Contributors focus on educational trends and issues in metropolitan Chicago, state education policy in Illinois, lessons of Chicago school reform, and standards-based, systemic reform in other states. The volume also includes chapters on standards and assessment in school accountability systems, effects of school spending on student achievement, and ""building-level"" obstacles to urban school reform.Presenting valuable data and a variety of perspectives, this book illuminates both the challenges and opportunities presented by standards-based education reform."

Table of Contents

Preface: The Chicago Assembly	ix
Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.
Acknowledgments	xi
Notes on Contributors	xiii
Introduction	1	(22)
Lawrence B. Joseph
Educational Trends and Issues in the Region, the State, and the Nation	23	(58)
Melissa Roderick
Early Childhood Education	73	(8)
Jerome Stermer
Education Reform Policy in Illinois: Problems, Conundrums, and Strategies	81	(54)
G. Alfred Hess, Jr.
Equity in Choosing Schools and Neighborhoods	123	(12)
William Sander
William Testa
Standards-Based Reform in the States: Progress and Challenges	135	(42)
Diane Massell
The Concept of Systemic Reform	169	(4)
Maris A. Vinovskis
Standards-Based Reform in Illinois	173	(4)
Richard D. Laine
Standards and Assessment in School Accountability Systems in Illinois	177	(28)
John Q. Easton
Sandra L. Storey
Improving Student Learning: How Does Money Matter?	205	(34)
Lawrence O. Picus
Education Funding in Illinois	233	(6)
Dea Meyer
So Much Reform, So Little Change: Building-Level Obstacles to Urban School Reform	239	(52)
Charles M. Payne
Some Lessons from Catholic Schools	279	(12)
Valerie E. Lee
Lessons of Chicago School Reform: From Radical Decentralization to Administrative Pragmatism	291	(34)
Dan A. Lewis
Integrated Governance	315	(10)
Kenneth K. Wong
Education Reform for the 21st Century / Report of the Chicago Assembly	325	(36)
Chicago Assembly Participants	361	(5)
Chicago Assembly Program Committee	366	(1)
Chicago Assembly Advisory Board	367