President Obama and Education Reform The Personal and the Political

by Maranto, Robert; McShane, Michael Q.

• ISBN13: 9781137030917
• ISBN10: 1137030917
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

President Obama and Education Reform offers a comprehensive description and analysis of President Obama's education agenda. The Obama administration has created numerous interlocking policies meant to foster class mobility and long-term economic growth through educational improvements, reforms that have drawn skepticism from supporters of traditional public schools. Robert Maranto and Michael Q. McShane have a more positive view. They believe that the Obama-era reforms reflect long-term changes in ideology and technology which have led to successful innovation in both the private and public sector, and that Obama's personal background as a community orPresident Obama and Education Reform offers a comprehensive description and analysis of President Obama's education agenda.

Author Biography

Robert Maranto is the 21st Century Chair in Leadership at the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Michael Q. McShane is a Distinguished Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas.

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“No president in modern history has made better use of the leverage that the federal government can bring to education reform than a former community organizer named Barack Obama. In President Obama and Education Reform, Robert Maranto and Michael Q. McShane look at the conditions – and tradeoffs – that led Obama to unleash unprecedented change in America’s public schools.” --Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform; author of Cheating Our Kids: How Politics and Greed Ruin Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)