Author: Theodore Leander MacDowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
State Versus Local Control of Elementary Education
Author: Theodore Leander MacDowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
State Versus Local Control of Elementary Education (Finance) (Classic Reprint)
Author: Theodore L. MacdowellPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528381208
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Excerpt from State Versus Local Control of Elementary Education (Finance) Assuming the last to represent actual conditions, this study endeavors primarily to determine, by an analysis of State school legislation 1 the present status and trend Of control of elementary education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
State Versus Local Control of Elementary Education
Author: Theodore Leander MacDowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Balancing Local Control and State Responsibility for K-12 Education
Author: Neil D. TheobaldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317927850
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book examines the impact of state activism on local school autonomy in terms of both financial resources and policy initiatives.
Higher Education Opportunity Act
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Bulletin - Bureau of Education
Author: United States. Bureau of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Controlling Public Education
Author: Kathryn A. McDermottPublisher: Studies in Government & Public
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Most Americans believe that local school districts are the only means by which citizens may exercise control over public education. Kathryn McDermott argues to the contrary that existing local institutions are no longer sufficient for achieving either equity or democratic governance. Not only is local control inequitable, it also fails to live up to its reputation for guaranteeing public participation and citizen influence. Drawing upon democratic theory and the results of field research in New Haven, Connecticut, and three suburbs, McDermott contends that our educational system can be made more democratic by centralizing control over funding while decentralizing most authority over schools to the level of schools themselves while enacting public school choice controlled for racial balance. To many people in Connecticut and elsewhere, the tension between equal opportunity for all students and local control of public education seems impossible to resolve. In 1996, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in Sheff v. O'Neill that local control produces unconstitutional segregation of public schools. Nearly all of the state's 169 towns operate their own public schools, and, like the towns they serve, the schools are generally homogeneous with respect to race and socioeconomic class. In the Sheff ruling, the court declared that making school districts coterminous with town lines "is the single most important factor contributing to the present concentration of racial and ethnic minorities in the Hartford public school system." At the same time, the court also acknowledged that the town-based school system "presently furthers the legitimate nonracial interests of permitting considerable local control and accountability in educational matters." In Connecticut and elsewhere, it has often seemed necessary to choose between local control and equity in public education, and local control has almost always won. McDermott argues that rather than seeing local control and equity as conflicting goals, policymakers should regard them as equally important components of democracy in public education. In her view, a truly democratic system of education should both encourage citizen participation in school governance and contribute to the formation and maintenance of a social order in which equality of opportunity prevails over hierarchies of privilege. Centralizing distribution of resources and using controlled choice to end racial isolation would provide greater equality of opportunity, while decentralizing management of schools would expand citizen participation. McDermott's conclusions break new ground in our understanding of local school governance itself and call into question the conventional wisdom about local participation. These findings should interest those who study school governance and reform—especially in an urban setting—as well as policy makers, administrators, teachers, students, and citizens eager to improve their schools.
The Danish People's High School
Author: Arthur Coleman MonahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Cooking in the Vocational School as Training for Home Making
Author: Iris Prouty O'LearyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Schoolhouse Sanitation
Author: Arthur William DunnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civics
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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