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From National Planning to Classroom Practice. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, April 2009, Pages: 232
Advanced industrialized countries share an
'achievement gap' between
students from low-income and high-income school
districts, despite
the different structures of their governments. This
book examines the
relationship between national planning and education
in two urban
school districts, Port City, USA and Montvelier,
France. Through
interviews with teachers and administrators and
observations of
classrooms in both settings, this book analyzes
whether educational
decision-making in the school districts has evolved
toward national
planning goals. Four education policy issues focus
the discussion:
depth of content, delivery of content, assessment and
accountability,
and funding. Both school districts demonstrate
successful attempts to
meet national goals; although historical, cultural
and institutional
constraints limit how much ground-level implementers
(teachers) are
able and willing to meet those goals.
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