Education

For courses in Educational Policy and Educational Leadership.

Written by a leading name in the area of educational policy, the third edition of this comprehensive text once again encourages future educational leaders to be proactive rather than reactive, and equips them with an understanding of educational policy and the important political theories upon which it is based.

Coverage not only addresses theory, analysis, development, and implementation of educational policy, but also explores the reasons for change in educational policy, ways to track its evolution, and techniques for influencing its ultimate destination. Finally, it wraps up with a look at the history of educational policy that helps put everything that has come before into an understandable context.

• NEW! Economic information (ch. 3) has been updated -- It incorporates the economic changes resulting both from the expected downturn of the business cycle and from the impact of the war in Iraq.  
• NEW! Up-to-date news stories for analysis and case studies have been provided. All the news stories for analysis for the second edition have been replaced by new stories.
  • Stories have been included that relate not only to the major concepts of the chapter they followed but also to current issues such as charter schools, bilingual ed, high-stakes testing, and the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act.
• NEW! Implementation chapter has been expanded and updated --now contains a section that presents the new research on implementers as learners as well as new research on the challenges of scaling programs up from one or a few sites to many. 
• NEW! Education Policy in the United States: Retrospective and Prospective (Ch. 12) has been signficantly revised. Chapter 12 now includes a lengthy discussion of the No Child Left Behind Act as well as suggestions about how education leaders can exercise their influence to shape the law to reflect some of their major concerns about it.  

• Internet Assignments —Interspersed among the end-of-chapter activities.

  • Gives students a chance to use the Internet to track educational policy—helps them become comfortable with the Internet and its capacity for providing information.

• Two Appendices of URLs—One listing major policy players and one providing instructions for locating policy information by state.

  • Offers prospective teachers a ready-made repertoire of Internet resources—can serve as springboards for in-class and homework assignments as well as individual self-study projects.

• A Glossary —At the end of the text.

  • Assists students to understand the nomenclature of the educational policy field.

• An entire chapter devoted to policy values and ideology.

  • Emphasizes the fact that policy making is inherently intertwined with values—lays the foundation for students' understanding of where and when struggles over values arise.

• Emphasis on educational policy at the state level—Evident from Chapter 6 on.

  • Apprises students of the importance of the individual state in making policy—explores this least-understood arena of the four involved in American educational policy.

• Figures and Tables - summarize important points and provide an easy reference for the most important principles of political action.
• End of chapter activities -- every chapter (except Ch. 9 & 12) ends with at lest four of these five types of learning activities for homework or class disucssion: Questions and Activities for Discussion, a case study, a news story for analysis, a pro-con debate, and an Internet assignment. These activities can also be used as the basis for short papers.
• Focus Questions and Activities –At the beginning and end of each chapter, respectively.
  • Organizes chapter content–identifies key points before the chapter is engaged and offers a structure for assessing gained knowledge at the end.
• For Further Reading sections–At the end of each chapter (except Chapter 9).

  • Provides an annotated bibliography of chapter-related books and articles–is ideal for assignments and self-study.

NEW! Economic information (ch. 3) has been updated -- It incorporates the economic changes resulting both from the expected downturn of the business cycle and from the impact of the war in Iraq.  

NEW! Up-to-date news stories for analysis and case studies have been provided. All the new stories for analysis for the second edition have been replaced by new stories. Stories have been included that relate not only to the major concepts of the chapter they followed but also to current issues such as charter schools, bilingual ed, high-stakes testing, and the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act.

NEW! Implementation chapter has been expanded and updated --now contains a section that presents the new research on implementers as learners as well as new research on the challenges of scaling programs up from one or a few sites to many. 

NEW! Education Policy in the United States: Retrospective and Prospective (Ch. 12) has been signficantly revised. Chapter 12 now includes a lengthy discussion of the No Child Left Behind Act as well as suggestions about how education leaders can exercise their influence to shape the law to reflect some of their major concerns about it.  

Chapter 1    Policy - What It Is and Where It Comes From

                    Why Study Policy?

                    Defining Policy

                    The Transformation of the Education Policy Environment

                    The Policy Process

                    The School Leader and Policy Studies

                    Defining Power

                    Discourse and Power

                    The Three-Dimensional Model of Power

                    Power in Educational Settings

                    Ethical Issues Surrounding Power

                    Why Analyze the Policy Environment?

                    The Economic Environment

                    Demographics and the Policy Environment

                    Implications for Education Policy

                    How About Large New Investments in Schools?

                    The Importance of the Less Obvious

                    The U.S. Political System

                    Implications of the Political System for School Leaders

                    Political Culture

                    The Importance of Ideas

                    Basic Values in U.S. Politics

                    Values Interacting with Each Other

                    Ideology

                    Major U.S. Ideologies

                    Other Ideologies

                    School Leaders Caught in Ideological Crossfire

Chapter 6    The Major Education Policy Actors

                    The Dramatis Personae of the Policy Drama

                    Goverment Actors

                    Nongovernmental Policy Actors

                    Identifying and Learning About Policy Actors

                    Counteracting "Swiss-Cheese Journalism"

Chapter 7    Setting the Stage and Getting On It:  Issue Definition and Agenda Setting

                    Perception and Reality in the Policy Process

                    Issue Definition: Setting the Stage

                    The Policy Agenda

                    School Leaders and the Early Stages of the Policy Process

                    The High Visibility Stages of the Policy Process

                    Policy Formulation and Adoption in Legislatures

                    Policy Formulation and Adoption in Administrative Agencies

                    Policy Formulation and Adoption in the Courts

                    Influencing Policy Formulation and Adoption

                    Learning to Analyze Public Policies

                    Lowi's Techniques of Control

                    McDonnell and Elmore's Policy Instruments

                    Cost Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

                    The Surprising Difficulty of Implementation

                    The Research on Implementation

                    How to Implement a New Policy

                    Implementing Unpopular Policies

                    A Nervous-Making Topic

                    Definitions Associated with Policy Evaluation

                    A Brief History of Educational Policy Evaluation

                    Characteristics of Policy Evaluations

                    Facilitating Meaningful Policy Evaluations

                    Acting on an Evaluation Report

                    If We Aren't in Kansas, Where Are We?

                    Four Theoretical Frameworks

                    Retrospective on U.S. Education Policy

                    Is No Child Left Behind the New Paradigm?

Education Policy (Educational Administration & Leadership)

For courses in Educational Policy and Educational Leadership.

The second edition of this comprehensive text once again encourages future educational leaders to be proactive rather than reactive, and equips them with an understanding of educational policy and the important political theories upon which it is based. Coverage not only addresses theory, analysis, development, and implementation of educational policy, but also explores the reasons for change in educational policy, ways to track its evolution, and techniques for influencing its ultimate destination. Finally, it wraps up with a look at the history of educational policy that helps put everything that has come before into an understandable context.

• Policy Studies for Educational Leaders: An Introduction, 2/E
  Fowler
  © 2004 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 416 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013099393X | ISBN-13: 9780130993939
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Written by a leading name in the area of educational policy, the third edition of this comprehensive text once again encourages future educational leaders to be proactive rather than reactive, and equips them with an understanding of educational policy and the important political theories upon which it is based.

Coverage not only addresses theory, analysis, development, and implementation of educational policy, but also explores the reasons for change in educational policy, ways to track its evolution, and techniques for influencing its ultimate destination. Finally, it wraps up with a look at the history of educational policy that helps put everything that has come before into an understandable context.

• NEW! Economic information (Chapter 3): Updated material incorporate the economic changes resulting from both the expected down turn of the business cycle and the impact of the war in Iraq.
• NEW! Up-to-date News Stories for Analysis and Case Studies: All new stories and case studies have been revised and relate to the major concepts of the chapter and address current issues such as charter schools, bilingual education, high-stakes testing, and the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act. 
• NEW! Policy Implementation (Chapter 10): Expanded and updated to present new research on implementers as learners as well as new research on the challenges of scaling programs up from one or a few sites to many. 
• NEW! Education Policy in the United States (Chapter 12): Significant revision includes a lengthy discussion of the No Child Left Behind Act as well as suggestions about how education leaders can exercise their influence to shape the law.  

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