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Learning policy : when state education reform works

Title
Learning policy : when state education reform works / David K. Cohen and Heather C. Hill.
Author
Cohen, David K., 1934-
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001.

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Additional Authors
Hill, Heather C.
Description
x, 226 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • "Education reformers and policymakers argue that improved students' learning requires stronger academic standards, stiffer state tests, and accountability for students' scores. Yet these efforts seem not to be succeeding in many states. The authors of this important book argue that effective state reform depends on conditions that most reforms ignore: coherence in policy and practice, as well as opportunities for professional learning."
  • "The book draws on a decade's detailed study of California's ambitious and controversial program to improve mathematics teaching and learning. Researchers David Cohen and Heather Hill report that state policy had a constructive influence on education when there was consistency among the tests and other policy instruments; when there was consistency among the curricula and other instruments of classroom practice; and when teachers had substantial opportunities to learn the practices proposed by the policy."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Education and state > California
  • School improvement programs > California
  • Mathematics > Study and teaching > California
  • Education and state
  • Mathematics > Study and teaching
  • School improvement programs
  • Mathematikunterricht
  • Bildungspolitik
  • California
  • Kalifornien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-219) and index.
Contents
1. Policy, Teaching, and Learning -- 2. The New New Math in California -- 3. Learning About Reform -- 4. Teachers' Ideas and Practices -- 5. Teachers' Opportunities to Learn and Classroom Practice -- 6. Learning and Policy -- 7. Missed Opportunities -- 8. Policy and Learning.
ISBN
  • 0300089473
  • 9780300089479
LCCN
2001026537
OCLC
  • ocm46959835
  • 46959835
  • SCSB-8906616
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library