Children as Pawns
Subtitle: The Politics of Educational Reform
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: March 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780674007444
Subjects: Central government policies; Organization & management of education; Government - U.S. Government; Educational Policy & Reform; Political Science; Education / Teaching; United States; Politics/International Relations; USA; Economic Conditions; Education / Educational Reform; Education and state; Public Policy - General; Educational change; Educational evaluation
Description: "Head Start. Bilingual education. Small class size. Social promotion. School funding. Virtually every school system in America has had to face these issues over the past thirty years. Advocates and dissenters have declared confidently that "the research" is on their side. But is it?".

"In Children as Pawns, Timothy A. Hacsi continues the astute and deeply researched history of social policies and ideological controversies about the care of children that he began in his widely praised Second Home. Turning now to the swirling politics of education beginning in the mid-twentieth century and continuing today, he brings together the recent history of educational policy and politics with the research evidence that supposedly grounds them.

Taking on five of the most controversial school reforms, Hacsi presents the illuminating, often-forgotten stories behind them."--BOOK JACKET.