Full Description
Education Restated: Getting Policy Right on Accountability, Teacher Pay, and School Choice offers the education policy community a roadmap for change in three hot-button policy areas. In each of these areas policy has been anchored around the wrong core values. By putting the right core values at the heart of policy, state governments can create more favorable conditions for education improvement at the local level.
Education Restated takes a pragmatic approach to policy change, recognizing that the forces that created today's policies have not gone away—and that on complex issues there are legitimate competing interests. This book harmonizes the best ideas of opposing policy camps and identifies opportunities to strengthen connections between K-12 and early childhood. For advocates seeking common ground with historical adversaries, Education Restated provides some ideas on where they might find it.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Shifting the Focus of Accountability
Chapter 1. Federal Accountability for Educational Success
Chapter 2. How the Every Student Succeeds Act Distracts Us From Half the System
Chapter 3. The Future of External Accountability
Part II. Getting the Best Teachers Where They're Needed
Chapter 4. The Experience of Teachers
Chapter 5. Why Districts Don't Put Their Best Teachers with Low-Income Students
Chapter 6. Restructuring Teacher Pay to Help the Children Who Need It Most
Chapter 7. How State and Federal Policy Shapes the Market for Teachers
Part III. Giving Parents Real Choices
Chapter 8. Schools as a Private, Public, and Positional Good
Chapter 9. The Geography and Demography of School Choice
Chapter 10. The Workaround: Public Charter Schools
Chapter 11. How Do Families Go About Choosing?
Chapter 12. Repositioning School Choice
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Bibliography
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