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Who’s In Charge Here?: The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policyreviewed by David T. Conley - November 29, 2006 Title: Who’s In Charge Here?: The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policy Author(s): Noel Epstein (Ed.) Publisher: Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. ISBN: 0815724713 , Pages: 303, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com The aptly named Whos In Charge Here? is one of several recent publications that explore what the books subtitle describes as the tangled web of school governance and policy in U.S. public education (see Conley, 2003; Venezia, Callan, Finney, Kirst, & Usdan, 2005; and Cross, 2006). This edited volume contains chapters by a number of leading thinkers on issues of governance and policy, including Michael Kirst, James Ryan, Paul Hill, Larry Cuban, Susan Fuhrman, Linda Darling-Hammond, Gary Sykes, and Henry Levin. These contributors offer a multi-faceted analysis of a complex phenomenon: the evolution of the system for governing public schools in the United States.
Explaining the jumbled and haphazard arrangements Americans have put in place to govern their schools is not a task for the faint of heart. Editor Noel Epstein, a former education editor for the Washington Post, frames the major issues that the uninitiated must understand to make sense... (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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- David Conley
University of Oregon E-mail Author DAVID CONLEY is Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership and founder and director of the Center for Educational Policy Research at the University of Oregon. He conducts research on a range of policy issues related to educational governance and systems articulation. His current research emphasizes high school-college transition. His most recent book, College Knowledge: What It Really Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready, summarizes research he conducted to identify the knowledge and skills necessary for college success.
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