Educational Policy in an International Context Political Culture and

Provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide a better understanding of how different countries are responding to the global exchange of policy ideas that includes 'the standar

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Educational Policy in an International Context

10.1057/9781137046758 - Educational Policy in an International Context, Edited by Karen Seashore Louis and Boudewijn van Velzen

Education Policy

Lance Fusarelli, North Carolina State University Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute Martin West, Harvard University This series addresses a variety of topics in the area of education policy. Volumes are solicited primarily from social scientists with expertise on education, in addition to policymakers or practitioners with hands-on experience in the field. Topics of particular focus include state and national policy, teacher recruitment, retention, and compensation, urban school reform, test-based accountability, choice-based reform, school finance, higher education costs and access, the quality instruction in higher education, leadership and administration in K-12 and higher education, teacher colleges, the role of the courts in education policymaking, and the relationship between education research and practice. The series serves as a venue for presenting stimulating new research findings, serious contributions to ongoing policy debates, and accessible volumes that illuminate important questions or synthesize existing research.

Series Editors LANCE FUSARELLI is a Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Adult and Higher Education at North Carolina State University. He is co-author of Better Policies, Better Schools and co-editor of the Handbook of Education Politics and Policy. FREDERICK M. HESS is Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. An author, teacher, and political scientist, his books include The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday’s Ideas and Common Sense School Reform. MARTIN WEST is an Assistant Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is an Executive Editor of Education Next and Deputy Director of Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance. Ohio’s Education Reform Challenges: Lessons from the Frontlines Chester E. Finn, Jr., Terry Ryan, and Michael B. Lafferty Accountability in American Higher Education Edited by Kevin Carey and Mark Schneider Freedom and School Choice in American Education Edited by Greg Forster and C. Bradley Thompson President Obama and Education Reform: The Personal and the Political Robert Maranto and Michael Q. McShane Educational Policy in an International Context: Political Culture and Its Effects Edited by Karen Seashore Louis and Boudewijn van Velzen

10.1057/9781137046758 - Educational Policy in an International Context, Edited by Karen Seashore Louis and Boudewijn van Velzen

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