Who's in charge here?
Subtitle: the tangled web of school governance and policy
By: Noel Epstein, editor
Contributors: Education Commission of the States; NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher: Education Commission of the States; Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Denver; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: School boards; Education and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction : who should be in charge of our schools? / Noel Epstein; title: Turning points : a history of American school governance / Michael W. Kirst; title: The Tenth Amendment and other paper tigers : the legal boundaries of education governance / James E. Ryan; title: Recovering from an accident : repairing governance with comparative advantage / Paul T. Hill; title: A solution that lost its problem : centralized policymaking and classroom gains / Larry Cuban; title: Less than meets the eye : standards, testing, and fear of federal control / Susan H. Fuhrman; title: A teacher supply policy for education : how to meet the "highly qualified teacher" challenge / Linda Darling-Hammond and Gary Sykes; title: Multiple choice questions : the road ahead / Henry M. Levin; title: The American kibbutz? : managing the school's family role / Noel Epstein.