Community engagement for better schools : guaranteeing accountability, representativeness and equality

Community engagement for better schools : guaranteeing accountability, representativeness and equality / Michael Guo-Brennan.

In the United States, government participation in education has traditionally involved guaranteeing public access, public funding, and public governance to achieve accountability, representativeness and equality. This volume discusses the role of broad regimes of local community actors to promote sc...

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Main Author: Guo-Brennan, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020.
Subjects:
Educational change > United States > History.
Education and state > United States > History.
Central government policies.
Educational strategies & policy.
Public administration.
Political economy.
Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Political Science > Public Policy > General.
Political Science > Public Policy > Social Policy.
Law > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Education and state
Educational change
United States
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Part I: Good Schools, Good Government, and Good Cities
  • Chapter 1: Government as Provider of Education Services
  • A Government Guarantee
  • Guaranteeing Public Access
  • Guaranteed Public Funding
  • Guaranteeing Public Governance
  • Education as a Public Good?
  • Government as Provider and Exclusive Producer of Education?
  • Education as a Worthy Good
  • Separating Production and Provision Through Choice
  • What Is School Choice?
  • Giving Parents Choice
  • References
  • Chapter 2: The Urban Regime and City Schools: Building Change
  • An Active Citizenry
  • Regime Theory
  • Managing Obstacles
  • Criticism of Regime Analysis
  • Changing Regimes and a Diffuse Agenda
  • Regime Types
  • Regime Typology and Urban Schools
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Community Engagement and the Education Regime
  • Failure to Guarantee Accountability, Responsiveness, and Equality
  • Maintaining the Status Quo
  • Mandated Top-Down Change
  • Voluntary Bottom-Up Change
  • Matching Intervention Typology to the Regime Typology
  • Reform Through Mandated Change
  • Reform Through Legally Imposed Court Decisions
  • Pittsburgh: Business-Backed Community Development Regime
  • Boston: A Market-Based Economic Development Regime
  • Reform Through State Takeovers
  • Opposition to Takeovers
  • Support for Takeovers
  • Reform Through Legislation
  • Reform Through Bottom-Up Change: The Detroit Market Regime
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Good Schools for Good Development: Race, Class, and Housing
  • Geography of Opportunity
  • Place, Race, and Class
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Renewal in Boston
  • Recovering From War: Pittsburgh and Urban Renewal
  • Planning and Zoning
  • Housing and Education
  • School Performance and Housing Price
  • Attractive People and Jobs
  • Combating Socioeconomic Segregation Through School Choice
  • References
  • Chapter 5: First- and Second-Order Change
  • Education to Improve Society
  • Defining Change
  • First-Order Reform
  • Limitations of Incrementalism
  • Making Change Traditional Style
  • Elements of Traditional First-Order Incremental Reform
  • Second-Order Reform
  • New Rules and New Systems
  • Elements of Second-Order Structural Change
  • Increasing Choice
  • References
  • Part II: Change, Change, and More Change
  • Chapter 6: A Chronology of School Reform
  • The Development of American Schools
  • Increasing Access and Representativeness
  • Common Schools
  • Who Should Attend, What School, and What Should They Learn?
  • Competing Interests
  • Progressive Education Reform
  • A New Country for a New Century
  • Centralizing Authority
  • The Rise in Federal Influence Since World War II
  • Sputnik and the Red Scare
  • Elementary and Secondary School Act
  • Coleman Report
  • A Nation at Risk
  • A People at Risk
  • References

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