Book-Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 School Policy under the Spotlights; CHAPTER 2 Testing the Theory in Testing Policy; CHAPTER 3 School Choice and the Illusion of Democracy; CHAPTER 4 The Contribution of Mass Media to Desegregation Policy; CHAPTER 5 Research and the Illusion of Rationality; CHAPTER 6 Education Policy, Inc.; CHAPTER 7 Finale; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are instead formulated by the political community as symbolic efforts meant to generate personal
