Education policy for the 21st century
Subtitle: challenges and opportunities in standards-based reform
By: edited by Lawrence B. Joseph
Contributors: Joseph, Lawrence B
Publisher: Center for Urban Research and Policy Studies, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago; distributed by University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Education and state -- Illinois; Educational change -- Illinois
Other titles: Education policy for the twenty-first century
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Chicago Assembly book."

Includes bibliographical references