Education Policy Implementation


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This supplemental text for educational policy, administration, and program evaluation courses provides a framework for examining the following crucial questions. To what extent have state and federal initiated policies actually been implemented during the past 25 years? and To what degree does implementation lead to effectiveness? At a time when critical understanding of the issues is essential for good decision making, this volume provides a valuable tool for teachers, students, and makers of educational policy.







Tools for State and Local Fiscal Management


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Governments have always endured economic woes, but the increasing severity of such challenges, from the Great Recession starting in 2008 to the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlights the need for better-developed fiscal analysis capacity in governments of all sizes using the most practical—yet robust—techniques available. This volume presents an array of real-world analytical approaches in a variety of service areas at the core of state and local government.




Implementing Academic Standards


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The National Education Goals (NEG) Panel has assembled information regarding standards implementation, especially in the areas of math and science. The papers in this volume describe how states have recently implemented their education standards, how textbooks and teaching could help students reach standards, and the resources and advice available from the professional organizations that developed national standards in math and science. Sections include: current state policy on standards; special issues relating to teachers and textbooks; special issues relating to math and science; and NEG Panel policy related to standards.







Splintered Accountability


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Detailed study of how real education reform works.




Signed, Sealed, and Delivered


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Details and more details, charts, graphs, and statistics that document the many programs, innovations, budgetary and policy decisions made during the Zell Miller years in Georgia. A researcher's delight.







Accountability


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