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Learning Policy: When State Education Reform Worksreviewed by Robert Rueda - 2003 Title: Learning Policy: When State Education Reform Works Author(s): David K. Cohen and Heather C. Hill Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven ISBN: 0300089473, Pages: 224, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Within the past few weeks, major federal legislation (the No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001) focused on education reform has
been passed. Significantly, one of the four “pillars”
of this national education reform blueprint is accountability and
testing (the others include flexibility and local control, funding
for what works, and expanded parental options). This new law
represents a comprehensive overhaul of existing federal law (the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed in 1965 and
the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1995 ) and now
becomes the principal federal law affecting K-12 education today.
Given this legislation and the policy direction that it reaffirms,
Cohen and Hill have produced an extremely timely book that
should give pause to those who view this initiative and other
similar initiatives as instruments of school reform.
The basis of the book is a partly an historical account of
California’s attempts to improve teaching and learning in
mathematics starting about the middle of the 1980’s, and
partly a detailed study of these same... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Robert Rueda
University of Southern California E-mail Author ROBERT RUEDA is a Professor in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. His research interests are in the areas of the sociocultural basis of learning and instruction with a focus on academic achievement (especially reading) in students in at-risk conditions, English language learners, and students with mild learning handicaps; and childrens' acquisition and uses of literacy.
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