Bush-Obama school reform : lessons learned /

Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane have gathered a diverse group of scholars to examine the shifting federal role in education across the presidential administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. While the administrations were vastly different, one thing remained constant, an ongoing an...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hess, Frederick M. (Editor), McShane, Michael Q. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2018]
Series:	Educational innovations.
Subjects:	United States. > No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Education and state > United States. Education > Standards > United States. Educational accountability > United States. Educational change > United States. Education > Aims and objectives > United States. Public schools > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane
Testing and accountability: what have we learned and where do we go? / Deven Carlson
The limits of policy for school turnaround / Ashley Jochim
Incentives and inducements: the feds fight federalism / Patrick McGuinn
Federal efforts to improve teacher quality / Matthew A. Kraft
The Bush-Obama agenda for education research and innovation: major investment, mixed returns / Robert Pianta and Tara Hofkens
Why standards produce weak reform / Tom Loveless
Federal support for charter schooling: a presidential priority / Anna J. Egalite
Challenging, building, and changing capacity in state education agencies / Sara E. Dahill-Brown
Sound and fury: education and civil rights in the Bush and Obama administrations / Joshua Dunn
Conclusion / Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane.