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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797416003321

Autore

Parkerson Donald Hugh

Titolo

Assessment, bureaucracy, and consolidation : the issues facing schools today / / Donald Parkerson and Jo Ann Parkerson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4758-1702-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Disciplina

370.973

Soggetti

Education - United States - Evaluation

Education - Standards - United States

School management and organization - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The world we have lost -- Assessment, bureaucracy and consolidation -- Seizing the schools : states and municipalities take control -- The consolidation century -- Embracing the corporate model -- The roots of standardized assessment -- Testing in schools -- Problems in corporate and school bureaucracy -- What have we done? -- What is to be done?

Sommario/riassunto

Today American schools are typically large, consolidated, bureaucratic organizations controlled by state and/or municipal governments. This book examines the remarkable transformation in the form and function of education and assesses the problems and possibilities for the future of schools and our nation.