Head Start. Bilingual education. Small class size. Social promotion. School funding. Virtually every school system in America has had to face these issues over the past thirty years. Advocates and dissenters have declared confidently that "the research" is on their side. But is it? In the...

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Main Author:	Hacsi, Timothy A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Harvard Univ. Press 2002
Subjects:	Enseignement - Réforme - États-Unis Onderwijsbeleid Onderwijsvernieuwing Éducation - Politique gouvernementale - États-Unis Évaluation en éducation - États-Unis Education and state > United States Educational change > United States Educational evaluation > United States Schulreform USA
Summary:	Head Start. Bilingual education. Small class size. Social promotion. School funding. Virtually every school system in America has had to face these issues over the past thirty years. Advocates and dissenters have declared confidently that "the research" is on their side. But is it? In the first book to bring together the recent history of educational policy and politics with the research evidence, Timothy Hacsi presents the illuminating, often-forgotten stories of these five controversial topics. He sifts through the complicated evaluation research literature and compares the policies that have been adopted to the best evidence about what actually works. He explains what the major studies show, what they don't, and how they have been misunderstood and misrepresented. Hacsi shows how rarely educational policies are based on solid research evidence, and how programs that sound plausible simply do not satisfy the complex needs of real children.
Physical Description:	IX, 261 S.
ISBN:	0674007441