Learning Policy: When State Education Reform Works

by David K. Cohen, Heather C. Hill, Professor David K. Cohen

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 which most reforms ignore: coherence in practice as well as policy and opportunities for professional learning. The book draws...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300089473
• ISBN13: 9780300089479
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"