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Contemporary Issues in Educational Policy and School Outcomes


reviewed by John G. Boswell — October 04, 2006

coverTitle: Contemporary Issues in Educational Policy and School Outcomes
Author(s): Wayne Hoy and Cecil Miskel (Eds)
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Charlotte
ISBN: 159311477X , Pages: 243, Year: 2006
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Research in education is in a struggle with historical knowledge and practice, politics, capitalism (as in textbook and testing companies’ desire to make a profit), and sheer inertia for the attention of the professional audience. Public policy making itself is permeated by half lies, outright lies, manipulation, conniving, single-mindedness, power wielding, fear mongering, etc., with an occasional dollop of rational information. A question those of us in academe are faced with is how to insert a dollop of rational information into this highly political and often unethical decision-making process. This book is a collection of well done research studies, most of which have earlier appeared in Contemporary Issues in Educational Policy and School Outcomes. The nine studies look into a broad range of issues. The first deals with formation of professional coalitions around state reading policy and is followed immediately with one on extreme advocacy coalitions around state reading policy. Another... (preview truncated at 150 words.)


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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record, Date Published: October 04, 2006
http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 12770, Date Accessed: 7/19/2018 6:02:29 AM

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    JOHN BOSWELL is Emeritus Professor of Education at The George Washington University Graduate School of Education.
 
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