Assessment, bureaucracy, and consolidation : the issues facing schools today / Donald Parkerson and Jo Ann Parkerson

Author:: Parkerson, Donald Hugh
Published:: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Physical Description:: ix, 147 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Parkerson, Jo Ann

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Contents:

The world we have lost -- Assessment, bureaucracy and consolidation -- Seizing the schools : states and municipalities take control -- The consolidation century -- Embracing the corporate model -- The roots of standardized assessment -- Testing in schools -- Problems in corporate and school bureaucracy -- What have we done? -- What is to be done?

Subject(s):

Education—United States—Evaluation
Education—Standards—United States
School management and organization—United States

ISBN:

9781475817003 hardcover
1475817002 hardcover
9781475817010 paperback
1475817010 paperback

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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