International Handbook of Educational Policy

Nina Bascia, Alister Cumming, Amanda Datnow, Kenneth Leithwood and David Livingstone This Handbook presents contemporary and emergent trends in educational policy research, in over ?fty chapters written by nearly ninety leading researchers from a number o

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Springer International Handbooks of Education VOLUME 13

A list of titles in this series can be found at the end of this volume.

International Handbook of Educational Policy Part One

Editors:

Nina Bascia Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of T oronto, ON, Canada

Alister Cumming Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of T oronto, ON, Canada

Amanda Datnow University of Southern California, L os Angeles, CA, USA

Kenneth Leithwood Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of T oronto, ON, Canada

and

David Livingstone Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of T oronto, ON, Canada

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

xiii PART ONE

SECTION 1 LARGE-SCALE EDUCATIONAL REFORM Section Editor – Amanda Datnow 1 2

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Globalization and educational change: New policy worlds Karen Mundy

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Marketization in education: Looking back to move forward with a stronger critique Amy Stuart Wells & Jennifer Jellison Holme

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Multicultural education in the United States and Canada: The importance of national policies Reva Joshee & L auri Johnson

53

International comparative studies of education and large-scale change Sarah Howie & T jeerd Plomp

75

A changed policy environment for US universities Elaine El-Khawas

101

The implications of policy decisions on practices in early childhood education Barbara A. Wasik & Annemarie H. Hindman

115

Policy-practice connections in state standards-based reform Michael S. Knapp & James L . Meadows

133

Informed consent? Issues in implementing and sustaining government-driven educational change L ouise Stoll & Gordon Stobart

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School district-wide reform policies in education Stephen E. Anderson & Wendy T ogneri

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Five key factors in supporting comprehensive school reform Amanda Datnow in collaboration with L eanne Foster, Elizabeth Kemper, Sue L asky, Camille Rutherford, Michele Schmidt, Sam Stringfield, Stephanie Sutherland & Janet T homas

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SECTION 2 LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE Section Editor: Kenneth L eithwood 11

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Knowledge producers and policymakers: Kissing kin or squabbling siblings? Karen Seashore L ouis

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