Carrots, sticks, and the bully pulpit
Subtitle: lessons from a half-century of federal efforts to improve America's schools
By: edited by Frederick M. Hess, Andrew P. Kelly
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781612501222; 9781612501215
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: School improvement programs; Education and state; Federal aid to education
Other titles: Lessons from a half-century of federal efforts to improve America's schools
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Frederick M. Hess and Andrew P. Kelly; title: The past is prologue? :; title: federal efforts to promote equity and excellence  -- Maris A. Vinovskis; title: "Government in a box" :; title: challenges of policy implementation in the American system  -- Andrew Rudalevige; title: Education policy in Congress :; title: perspectives from inside and out  -- Charles Barone and Elizabeth DeBray; title: Courting education :; title: mitigating the Seven (somewhat) Deadly Sins of education litigation  -- Joshua M. Dunn; title: The federal role in research :; title: lessons from the field  -- Jane Hannaway and Mark Schneider; title: Incentives, information, and infrastructure :; title: the federal role in educational innovation  -- Patrick McGuinn, Larry Berger, and David Stevenson; title: Stepping-stones to success or a bridge too far? :; title: the federal role in educational accountability  -- Paul Manna and Jennifer Wallner; title: Uncle Sam and the nation's great city schools :; title: reflections on a rocky relationship  -- Michael Casserly; title: Jurisdictional politics :; title: a new federal role in education  -- Jal Mehta and Steven Teles; title: Agenda-setters and duds :; title: a bully pulpit, indeed  -- Chester E. Finn Jr.; title: Rethinking ESEA :; title: a zero-base reauthorization  -- Marshall S. Smith; title: Modernizing federal influence on American schools :; title: eight key proposals for better measurement, management, and leadership  -- Ronald F. Ferguson; title: Reflections on the federal role :; title: a half-century of hard-won lessons -- Frederick M. Hess and Andrew P. Kelly.