Donald Parkerson, Jo Ann Parkerson

Assessment, Bureaucracy, and Consolidation

The Issues Facing Schools Today

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Today American schools are typically large, consolidated, bureaucratic organizations controlled by state and/or municipal governments. This book examines the remarkable transformation in the form and function of education and assesses the problems and possibilities for the future of schools and our nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9781475817010
• ISBN-10: 1475817010
• Artikelnr.: 42403568

Autorenporträt

Donald Parkerson is Distinguished Professor of Teaching in the History Department at East Carolina University. This is his fifth book focusing on the history of education with his colleague and coauthor, Jo Ann Parkerson. Jo Ann Parkerson is professor emerita of education at Methodist University. She draws upon her extensive teaching background as coauthor of five books on educational history.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Chapter One: The World We Have Lost Chapter Two:
Assessment, Bureaucracy and Consolidation Chapter Three: Seizing the
Schools: States and Municipalities Take Control Chapter Four: The
Consolidation Century Chapter Five: Embracing the Corporate Model Chapter
Six: The Roots of Standardized Assessment Chapter Seven: Testing in Schools
Chapter Eight: Problems in Corporate and School Bureaucracy Chapter Nine:
What have we Done? Chapter Ten: What is to be Done? References Index