Standards deviation : how schools misunderstand education policy /
Spillane, James P.
Standards deviation : how schools misunderstand education policy / James P. Spillane. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004. - 1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.
Making education policy here, there, and everywhere -- Doing standards: content and context -- Interactive policymaking -- Making policy, making sense -- Resources for sense-making -- The schoolteacher and interactive policymaking -- Policy in practice -- Implementation reconsidered.
What happens to federal and state policies as they move from legislative chambers to individual districts, schools, and, ultimately, classrooms? Although policy implementation is generally seen as an administrative problem, James Spillane reminds us that it is also a psychological problem. After intensively studying several school districts' responses to new statewide science and math teaching policies in the early 1990s, Spillane argues that administrators and teachers are inclined to assimilate new policies into current practices. As new programs are communicated through administrative levels, the understanding of them becomes increasingly distorted, no matter how sincerely the new ideas are endorsed. Such patterns of well-intentioned misunderstanding highlight the need for systematic training and continuing support for the local administrators and teachers who are entrusted with carrying out large-scale educational change, classroom by classroom.
English.
9780674043923 (electronic bk.) 0674043928 (electronic bk.) 9780674013230 0674013239
10.4159/9780674043923 doi
00011705 22573/ctv1q3jt2k JSTOR
GBA4Y3926 bnb GBA622864 bnb GBA441518 bnb
012272353 Uk 012923401 Uk 013402915 Uk
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Education and state--United States.
Education--Standards--United States.
Éducation--Politique gouvernementale--États-Unis.
EDUCATION--Educational Policy & Reform--General.
EDUCATION--Administration--General.
EDUCATION / Administration / General
Education and state.
Education--Standards.
Bildung
Bildungspolitik
Standardisierung
Erziehung
Onderwijsbeleid.
United States.
USA.
Electronic books.
LC89 / .S54 2004eb
379.73
Standards deviation : how schools misunderstand education policy / James P. Spillane. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004. - 1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.
Making education policy here, there, and everywhere -- Doing standards: content and context -- Interactive policymaking -- Making policy, making sense -- Resources for sense-making -- The schoolteacher and interactive policymaking -- Policy in practice -- Implementation reconsidered.
What happens to federal and state policies as they move from legislative chambers to individual districts, schools, and, ultimately, classrooms? Although policy implementation is generally seen as an administrative problem, James Spillane reminds us that it is also a psychological problem. After intensively studying several school districts' responses to new statewide science and math teaching policies in the early 1990s, Spillane argues that administrators and teachers are inclined to assimilate new policies into current practices. As new programs are communicated through administrative levels, the understanding of them becomes increasingly distorted, no matter how sincerely the new ideas are endorsed. Such patterns of well-intentioned misunderstanding highlight the need for systematic training and continuing support for the local administrators and teachers who are entrusted with carrying out large-scale educational change, classroom by classroom.
English.
9780674043923 (electronic bk.) 0674043928 (electronic bk.) 9780674013230 0674013239
10.4159/9780674043923 doi
00011705 22573/ctv1q3jt2k JSTOR
GBA4Y3926 bnb GBA622864 bnb GBA441518 bnb
012272353 Uk 012923401 Uk 013402915 Uk
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Education and state--United States.
Education--Standards--United States.
Éducation--Politique gouvernementale--États-Unis.
EDUCATION--Educational Policy & Reform--General.
EDUCATION--Administration--General.
EDUCATION / Administration / General
Education and state.
Education--Standards.
Bildung
Bildungspolitik
Standardisierung
Erziehung
Onderwijsbeleid.
United States.
USA.
Electronic books.
LC89 / .S54 2004eb
379.73