Education Policy Perils

Christopher H. Tienken is Associate Professor of Education Administration at Seton Hall University, USA.Carol A. Mullen is Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA.

• ForewordFenwick W. EnglishAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Christopher H. Tienken and Carol A. MullenPart I: Education Leadership in the Current Policy Environment1. The Rhetoric and Reality of School Reform: Choice, Competition, and Organizational Incentives in Market-Oriented EducationChristopher Lubienski and P.S. Myers2. Corporate Networks and Their Grip on the Public School Sector and Education PolicyCarol A. Mullen3. Leading in a Socially Just Manner: Preparing Principals with a Policy PerspectiveMariela A. RodríguezPart II: Curriculum and Assessment Policy Perils4. Customized Curriculum and High Achievement in High-Poverty SchoolsTom Tramaglini and Christopher H. Tienken5. OECD, PISA, and Globalization: The Influence of the International Assessment RegimeSvein Sjøberg6. High School Mathematics in Texas: Freedom and ShacklesMichael Marder7. Standardized Test Results Can Be Predicted, So Stop Using Them to Drive Education PolicymakingChristopher H. TienkenEditors and ContributorsIndex

"Enlightening, insightful, practical, and evidence based. A much-needed masterful guide for traversing the bewildering and tough education policy terrain." --Yong Zhao, Ph. D., author of Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World"Our democracy thrives when smart policy replaces bad policy. This book points us in that direction with a variety of chapters, viewpoints, critiques and, best of all, ideas about how to solve some of the pressing education policy issues of our times. A much-needed analysis of how we have been led astray and what we might do about it." --David C. Berliner, Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Education, Arizona State University