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Children as Pawns : The Politics of Educational Reform / Timothy A. Hacsi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: 2003Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674038127
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LC89 ǂb H215 2002eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 What Difference Does Head Start Make? -- 2 Is Bilingual Education a Good Idea? -- 3 Does Class Size Matter? -- 4 Is Social Promotion a Problem? -- 5 Does More Money Make Schools Better? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Readings -- Index
Summary: Head Start. Bilingual education. Small class size. Social promotion. School funding. Virtually every school system in America has had to face these issues over the past thirty years. Advocates and dissenters have declared confidently that "the research" is on their side. But is it?In the first book to bring together the recent history of educational policy and politics with the research evidence, Timothy Hacsi presents the illuminating, often-forgotten stories of these five controversial topics. He sifts through the complicated evaluation research literature and compares the policies that have been adopted to the best evidence about what actually works. He lucidly explains what the major studies show, what they don't, and how they have been misunderstood and misrepresented. Hacsi shows how rarely educational policies are based on solid research evidence, and how programs that sound plausible simply do not satisfy the complex needs of real children.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674038127

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 What Difference Does Head Start Make? -- 2 Is Bilingual Education a Good Idea? -- 3 Does Class Size Matter? -- 4 Is Social Promotion a Problem? -- 5 Does More Money Make Schools Better? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Readings -- Index

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Head Start. Bilingual education. Small class size. Social promotion. School funding. Virtually every school system in America has had to face these issues over the past thirty years. Advocates and dissenters have declared confidently that "the research" is on their side. But is it?In the first book to bring together the recent history of educational policy and politics with the research evidence, Timothy Hacsi presents the illuminating, often-forgotten stories of these five controversial topics. He sifts through the complicated evaluation research literature and compares the policies that have been adopted to the best evidence about what actually works. He lucidly explains what the major studies show, what they don't, and how they have been misunderstood and misrepresented. Hacsi shows how rarely educational policies are based on solid research evidence, and how programs that sound plausible simply do not satisfy the complex needs of real children.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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