Title Community engagement for better schools : guaranteeing accountability, representativeness and equality / Michael Guo-Brennan

Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Good Schools, Good Government, and Good Cities -- Chapter 1: Government as Provider of Education Services -- A Government Guarantee -- Guaranteeing Public Access -- Guaranteed Public Funding -- Guaranteeing Public Governance -- Education as a Public Good? -- Government as Provider and Exclusive Producer of Education? -- Education as a Worthy Good -- Separating Production and Provision Through Choice -- What Is School Choice? -- Giving Parents Choice -- References Chapter 2: The Urban Regime and City Schools: Building Change -- An Active Citizenry -- Regime Theory -- Managing Obstacles -- Criticism of Regime Analysis -- Changing Regimes and a Diffuse Agenda -- Regime Types -- Regime Typology and Urban Schools -- References -- Chapter 3: Community Engagement and the Education Regime -- Failure to Guarantee Accountability, Responsiveness, and Equality -- Maintaining the Status Quo -- Mandated Top-Down Change -- Voluntary Bottom-Up Change -- Matching Intervention Typology to the Regime Typology -- Reform Through Mandated Change Reform Through Legally Imposed Court Decisions -- Pittsburgh: Business-Backed Community Development Regime -- Boston: A Market-Based Economic Development Regime -- Reform Through State Takeovers -- Opposition to Takeovers -- Support for Takeovers -- Reform Through Legislation -- Reform Through Bottom-Up Change: The Detroit Market Regime -- References -- Chapter 4: Good Schools for Good Development: Race, Class, and Housing -- Geography of Opportunity -- Place, Race, and Class -- Urban Development -- Urban Renewal in Boston -- Recovering From War: Pittsburgh and Urban Renewal Planning and Zoning -- Housing and Education -- School Performance and Housing Price -- Attractive People and Jobs -- Combating Socioeconomic Segregation Through School Choice -- References -- Chapter 5: First- and Second-Order Change -- Education to Improve Society -- Defining Change -- First-Order Reform -- Limitations of Incrementalism -- Making Change Traditional Style -- Elements of Traditional First-Order Incremental Reform -- Second-Order Reform -- New Rules and New Systems -- Elements of Second-Order Structural Change -- Increasing Choice -- References Part II: Change, Change, and More Change -- Chapter 6: A Chronology of School Reform -- The Development of American Schools -- Increasing Access and Representativeness -- Common Schools -- Who Should Attend, What School, and What Should They Learn? -- Competing Interests -- Progressive Education Reform -- A New Country for a New Century -- Centralizing Authority -- The Rise in Federal Influence Since World War II -- Sputnik and the Red Scare -- Elementary and Secondary School Act -- Coleman Report -- A Nation at Risk -- A People at Risk -- References Summary 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.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 11, 2020) Subject Educational change -- United States -- History Education and state -- United States -- History Central government policies. Educational strategies & policy. Public administration. Political economy. Education -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General. Political Science -- Public Policy -- General. Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy. Law -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. Education and state Educational change United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030540388 3030540383

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