书目名称 | Education and the Public Interest | 副标题 | School Reform, Publi | 编辑 | Edward P. St.John | 视频video | | 概述 | Provides a systematic evaluation of the effects of state education reforms and finance policies the past decades.Discusses the need for a fundamental rethinking of educational policy in the U. S..Sugg | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education. In the U.S. these reforms are rationalized based on intermediate variables, like the number of math credits completed in high school and net prices. However, the reforms rationalized based on this research are seldom evaluated in relation to outcomes (i.e., measures of student achievement and equal opportunity to attain an education). In Education and the Public Interest the editor re-examines the political rationales for these reforms. John Rawls’s theory of justice is reconstructed to develop a framework for assessing the effects of public policy on these outcomes. This volume undertakes a comparative study of the states in the U.S. to examine how education reforms influence student achievement, high school graduation, and college access; and finance schemes influence college access. Policies implemented by states in the 1990s were associated with improved achievement, as measured by test scores for high school students. These policies also correlate with increased hi | 出版日期 | Book 2006 | 关键词 | Evaluation; John Rawls; education; education reform; higher education; quality; university | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5248-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7320-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-5248-4 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006 |
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