Educational Leadership: Policy Dimensions in the 21st Century

by Bruce A. Jones

Overview

The contributors provided in this book shed light on and initiate debates about important policy issues associated with education reform and improvement. The authors do this by linking conceptual frameworks to past research, analyzing these challenges, and speculating about the contours of future research and school practice.

Centering on policy research-based examinations of the future in public education in the United States, this book examines policy issues as they relate to public education governance, finance, curriculum development and community relations. At a conceptual level, the volume explores along several dimensions whether or not public education should exist in its current form, and what is the connection between future configurations of public education, policy development and the global economy,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567504897
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/09/2000
Series:	Advances in Foreign and Second Language Pedagogy , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

BRUCE ANTHONY JONES is Associate Professor and Director of the University of Missouri-Columbia Educational Policy Center, Columbia, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Foreword by C. Kent McGuire
Educational Organizations: Evolving Thinking and Configurations
Contests Over Governance of Educational Policy: Prospects for the New Century by James G.Cibulka
Privatization of Education: Marketplace Models by Martha Mc Carthy
Transactionn Costs and the Structure of Interagency Collaboratives: Bridging Theory and Practice by Patrick Galvin and Janice Fauske
Students: The Bottom Line
From Policy to Performance: Weaving Policy and Leadership Strategies to Improve Student Achievement by Carolyn Kelley
Education and Changing Demographics by Betty Merchant
The Power of the Political: Beyond Professionalism in Integrating Programs for Children by Carolyn D. Herrington
School Reform: National and Local Dynamic
National Standards in Local Context: A Philosophical Analysis by Barry Bull
School Change Business and the Private Push by Bruce Anthony Jones and Susan Otterbourg
Key Dilemma
The Future of Education Finance in Improving Public Education by James G. Ward
The School Leadership Shortage: Framework for Policy Discussion by Bruce Anthony Jones
Author Index
Subject Index