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Community Engagement for Better Schools - Guaranteeing Accountability, Representativeness and Equality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Community Engagement for Better Schools - Guaranteeing Accountability, Representativeness and Equality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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In the United States, government participation in education has
traditionally involved guaranteeing public access, public funding,
and public governance to achieve accountability, representativeness
and equality. This volume discusses the role of broad regimes of
local community actors to promote school improvement through
greater civic engagement. Taking a historical perspective, this
text examines the relationship between government at the federal,
state, and local level and local actors both inside the traditional
education regime and those stakeholders outside the schools
including parents, non-profit organizations, and businesses. It
then drills deeper into the role of state legislatures and finally
local leadership both inside and outside the schools to promote
change, focusing on efforts that include parental choice through
tax incentives, charter schools, magnet schools, and school
vouchers to achieve accountability, representativeness and
equality. The text examines the perceptions and relationships of
various actors in urban education reform in numerous cities across
the country with special attention dedicated to Chicago, Illinois,
and Milwaukee, Wisconsin to offer a deeper understanding of the
barriers to and opportunities for fostering greater civic capacity
and engagement in urban education reform, as well as developing
inclusive educational policy. Attention is also given to
accountability and measuring success, traditionally defined by high
stakes testing which fails to consider non-classroom factors within
the community that contribute to student performance. An
alternative approach is offered driven by a wholistic accounting of
various factors that contribute to school success centered around
third-party inspections and accreditation. Providing insight into
school reform at the local level, this book will be useful to
researchers and students interested in public policy, education
policy, urban governance, intergovernmental relations, and
educational leadership, as well as teaching professionals,
administrators, and local government officials.
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