Overview
- Discusses the role of local communities and civic engagement in school improvement in the US
- Examines education policy at the federal, state, and local levels
- Analyzes the school choice movement and competition between schools
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Good Schools, Good Government, and Good Cities
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Change, Change, and More Change
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Introducing a Market for Education
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Big City Schools, Local Actors, and Change on the Ground
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Guaranteeing Accountability Through Choice
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About this book
In the United States, government participation in education has traditionally involved guaranteeing public access, public funding, and public governance to achieve accountability, representativeness and equality. This volume discusses the role of broad regimes of local community actors to promote school improvement through greater civic engagement. Taking a historical perspective, this text examines the relationship between government at the federal, state, and local level and local actors both inside the traditional education regime and those stakeholders outside the schools including parents, non-profit organizations, and businesses. It then drills deeper into the role of state legislatures and finally local leadership both inside and outside the schools to promote change, focusing on efforts that include parental choice through tax incentives, charter schools, magnet schools, and school vouchers to achieve accountability, representativeness and equality.
The text examines the perceptions and relationships of various actors in urban education reform in numerous cities across the country with special attention dedicated to Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin to offer a deeper understanding of the barriers to and opportunities for fostering greater civic capacity and engagement in urban education reform, as well as developing inclusive educational policy.
Attention is also given to accountability and measuring success, traditionally defined by high stakes testing which fails to consider non-classroom factors within the community that contribute to student performance. An alternative approach is offered driven by a wholistic accounting of various factors that contribute to school success centered around third-party inspections and accreditation.
Providing insight into school reform at the local level, this book will be useful to researchers and students interested in public policy, education policy, urban governance, intergovernmental relations, and educational leadership, as well as teaching professionals, administrators, and local government officials.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Guo-Brennan is an Assistant Professor of public administration in the Department of Political Science at Troy University in Alabama (US).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community Engagement for Better Schools
Book Subtitle: Guaranteeing Accountability, Representativeness and Equality
Authors: Michael Guo-Brennan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54038-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54037-1Published: 19 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54040-1Published: 20 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54038-8Published: 18 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 291
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Administration, Education Policy, Educational Policy and Politics, Public Policy, Social Policy