 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 PolicyAuthor(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 Who’s In Charge Here? is one of several recent publications that explore what the book’s 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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