Spin cycle
Subtitle: how research is used in policy debates : the case of charter schools
By: Jeffrey R. Henig.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation; The Century Foundation; Century Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780871543394
Subjects: Charter schools -- Political aspects -- United States; Charter schools -- Government policy -- United States; Education -- Research -- Political aspects -- United States
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the New York Times/AFT charter school controversy; title: Informed democracy: an ideal and its skeptics; title: How cool research gets in hot waters : privatization, school choice, and the critical case of charter schools; title: Research in the public eye : personalization, polarization & politicization; title: Research outside the spotlight : accumulation, convergence, contingency; title: Follow the money : what is the role of funding in the politicization of education research?; title: How research reaches the public ear : old media and new; title: Can the ideal of informed democracy be revived?