Education Policy for the 21st Century

This book examines a range of key issues in standards-based education reform. Contributors focus on educational trends and issues in metropolitan Chicago, state education policy in Illinois, lessons of Chicago school reform, and standards-based, systemic reform in other states. The volume also includes chapters on standards and assessment in school accountability systems, effects of school spending on student achievement, and "building-level" obstacles to urban school reform.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Editions

1

Pages

384

ISBN

9780962675560

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