IAP || Series || Research in Educational Policy: Local, National, and Global Perspectives

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Research in Educational Policy: Local, National, and Global Perspectives

Education is high on the policy agenda in nations around the world. The quality of human capital constitutes a primary driving force in the global system. Professional associations, businesses, think tanks, and other interest groups are developing strategies to transform teacher recruitment and training, improve school management, and expand parental choice. These policy redirections, however, often occur in the absence of research-based knowledge. Research findings can provide useful guide to the current policy debate on school reform and innovation. New models of intervention can be empirically examined by third parties who are neither program consumers nor designers. Researchers can also develop creative tools that would allow for longitudinal assessment of the value-added performance of students and teachers. This book series is devoted to the systematic study of education policy and school governance at the local, national, and global levels. Topics addressed include (1) education governance and management in a multi-layered policy organization, (2) the school?s relations with the family, markets, civil society, technological forces, class and social stratification, and other institutions, (3) the way instructional and schooling services are delivered to students in different national and local settings, and (4) alternative strategies to improve accountability and outcome based performance.

BOOKS IN THIS SERIES

Kenneth K. Wong, Brown University; Felix Knüpling, Forum of Federations; Mario Kölling, Spanish National Distance Education University

Tjeerd Plomp, University of Twente; Ronald E. Anderson, University of Minnesota; Nancy Law, University of Hong Kong; Andreas Quale, University of Oslo, Norway

Kenneth K. Wong
Brown University

Research in Educational Policy: Local, National, and Global Perspectives

Kenneth K. Wong, Brown University; Felix Knüpling, Forum of Federations; Mario Kölling, Spanish National Distance Education University

Sheneka M. Williams, The University of Georgia; Ain A. Grooms, Southern Regional Education Board

Tjeerd Plomp, University of Twente; Ronald E. Anderson, University of Minnesota; Nancy Law, University of Hong Kong; Andreas Quale, University of Oslo, Norway

Kenneth K. Wong, Brown University; Stacey Rutledge, Florida State University

Tjeerd Plomp, University of Twente; Ronald E. Anderson, University of Minnesota; Nancy Law, University of Hong Kong; Andreas Quale, University of Oslo, Norway

Margaret C. Wang, Temple University; William Lowe Boyd, Pennsylvania St. University