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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama’s education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades. The authors argue that the Obama education agenda, though more ambitious, is broadly in line with those of recent presidencies, reflecting elite views that since substantial increases in spending have failed to improve equity and achievement, public schools require reforms promoting transparency such as the Common Core national standards, as well as market based reforms such as charter schools. While sympathetic to President Obama’s goals, the authors argue that the processes used to implement those goals, particularly national standards, have been hurried and lacked public input. The Obama administration’s overreach on school reform has sparked a bipartisan backlash. Even so, Maranto, McShane, and Rhinesmith suspect that the next president will be an education reformer, reflecting an enduringelite consensus behind school reform.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Michael Q. McShane is Director of Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute and a former high school teacher. He has co-authored or co-edited five books on education policy, including Teacher Quality 2.0 and Common Core Meets Education Reform.
Evan Rhinesmith is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, USA. He holds a MEd from the University of Notre Dame, USA and has previously taught at Sacred Heart School in Washington D.C., USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education Reform in the Obama Era
Book Subtitle: The Second Term and the 2016 Election
Authors: Robert Maranto, MICHAEL Q. MCSHANE, Evan Rhinesmith
Series Title: Education Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58212-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58211-9Published: 29 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58212-6Published: 29 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-7572
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 117
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics