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School Boards in America: A Flawed Exercise in Democracy de G. Maeroff

School Boards in America: A Flawed Exercise in Democracy

Autor G. Maeroff
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 ian 2011
School boards spend almost $500 billion in taxpayer-provided funds, they employ more than 6 million people, offering pensions and lifetime health benefits that have helped build the obligation that has put state governments in fiscal peril. This book lifts the veil of obscurity from school boards and makes readers think about the issues.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230109315
ISBN-10: 0230109314
Pagini: 229
Ilustrații: X, 229 p.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:2010
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

A Cradle of Democracy  The School Board's Impact on the Content of Learning  Inherent Inequities Jobs, Jobs, Jobs  Teachers: The Glory and the Agony  The Mirage of Local Control  The Special Burden of Special Education  The Inner Workings of School Boards  Accepting Responsibility  Alternatives to School Boards  Do School Boards Have a Future?

Recenzii

"As the nation engages in the critical struggle to improve its schools, the local school board remains a neglected institution.Board members, however, remain critically important.This immensely readable volume by a school board member sheds much needed light on both the strengths and weaknesses of this uniquely American institution." - Jim Hunt, Governor of North Carolina (1977-1985, 1993-2001)
"Maeroff brings light and wisdom to understanding why school boards, a uniquely American institution, are both loved and hated; and what we can do to help them improve the education of our children." - Christopher T. Cross, former Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education and Chairman, Cross & Joftus, LLC
"A vitally important, cogently written analysis by an extremely knowledgeable author who is currently living his subject as a school board president (an all too rare reality among contemporary education policy experts )." - Michael D. Usdan, Senior Fellow, The Institute for Educational Leadership
"Gene Maeroff spins the reader through a whirlwind of education-reform debates, from accountability to teacher quality to funding - all through the eyes of the local school board. He provides case-study examples of successful school boards (like that of Denver Public Schools) and those that have been far less so (like that of Clayton County, GA) as well as scores of interesting data points. . . . In the end, though Maeroff acknowledges inherent and systemic flaws in school boards, he offers up reasonably mundane suggestions for righting them - including having appointed and not elected boards, and increasing professional development - leaving us still searching for the most viable governance arrangement for our schools." -Daniela Fairchild, Associate Editor and Policy Analyst, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, from The Education Gadfly

Notă biografică

GENE I. MAEROFF Senior Fellow at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, where he was the founding director. He is also a former national education correspondent for the New York Times. He is the author of over a dozen books including The Guide to Suburban Public Schools, Team Building for School Change, School Smart Parent, Altered Destinies, and A Classroom of One.