Full Description
The Risky Business of Education Policy focuses commentary and analysis on some of the most pressing policy challenges facing public school educators and those invested in a healthy, vibrant public-school system. The book shares insights and makes recommendations from leading scholar-practitioners, namely from educational leadership and science education, on ways to ponder, navigate, and challenge serious policy issues. The chapters present important policy topics and critical analysis of the topics from the authorial perspective of experienced educators leading the preparation of future school leaders and teachers.
Through fast paced, user-friendly chapters, contributors grapple with an education reform policy issue of the day, reflecting what is contentious territory while wading through it. These educational researchers also make evidence-informed practical recommendations for educators and policymakers on how to better approach the policy challenges presented, so public education can be improved for all children. Each chapter contains stimulating ideas, useful information, and practical tips for school practitioners, higher education faculty, and constituent groups.
Contents
Foreword: Education Policy Reform: A Tale of Haunting; Introduction; 1 Corporate Networks' Grip on the Public School Sector and Education Policy; 2 Neoliberalism as a Policy Ventriloquist: Deconstructing the Discourse of Corporate America for its Public Schools; 3. Threats to Meaningful Reform of Civic Education; 4. Brown versus Board Did Not Work: Finding a New Pathway to Educational Justice; 5. Charter Schools' Impact on Public Education: Theory versus Reality; 6. OECD, PISA, and Globalization: The Influence of the International Assessment Regime; 7. Students as the Missing Actor in Education Reform; 8. We Come from Everywhere: Innovating Bi/Multilingual Principal Preparation Programs; 9. Evaluating the Different SIDES of Education Policies: A Practical Policy Analysis Framework for School Leaders
