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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778453003321

Autore

Spillane James P

Titolo

Standards deviation [[electronic resource] ] : how schools misunderstand education policy / / James P. Spillane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-674-04392-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 205 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

379.73

Soggetti

Education and state - United States

Education - Standards - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments 1. Making Education Policy Here, There, and Everywhere 2. Doing Standards: Content and Context 3. Interactive Policymaking 4. Making Policy, Making Sense 5. Resources for Sense-Making 6. The Schoolteacher and Interactive Policymaking 7. Policy in Practice 8. Implementation Reconsidered Appendix: Research Methods References Index

Sommario/riassunto

What happens to federal and state policies as they move from legislative chambers to individual districts, schools, and, ultimately, classrooms? Although policy implementation is generally seen as an administrative problem, James Spillane reminds us that it is also a psychological problem.