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Learning Policy: When State Education Reform Works

reviewed 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
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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.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 105 Number 7, 2003, p. 1295-1298
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 10898, Date Accessed: 1/29/2020 12:41:26 PM

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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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