| Contributors | |
| Preface | |
| I | Foundational Issues in American Educational Policy | |
| 1 | Whose Schools are these and what are they for? The Role of the Rule of Law in Defining Educational Opportunity in American Public Education | |
| 2 | The Finance of American Public Education: Challenges of Equity, Adequacy, and Efficiency | |
| 3 | Infusing Educational Decision Making with Research | |
| 4 | The Role of Philosophy in Educational Reforms: Never the Twain Shall Meet? | |
| II | Local, State, National, and International Perspectives | |
| 5 | Evolution of Educational Reform in Maryland: Using Data to Drive State Policy and Local Reform | |
| 6 | Michigan: The State of Education Reform | |
| 7 | Standards Initiatives and American Educational Reform | |
| 8 | Moving toward an Accountable System of K-12 Education: Alternative Approaches and Challenges | |
| 9 | The Role of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Setting, Reflecting, and Linking National Education Policy to States' Needs | |
| 10 | Education Policy in the United States and Abroad: What we can Learn from each other | |
| III | Intersections of Theory, Policy, Politics, and Practice | |
| 11 | Policy and Practical Implications of Theoretical Innovations in Education | |
| 12 | Political Institutions and Educational Policy | |
| 13 | Success for all: Policy Consequences of Replicable Schoolwide Reform | |
| 14 | The Impact of the Teachers' Unions on Educational Policy and Outcomes | |
| 15 | The Pendulum Revisited: Faddism in Education and its Alternatives | |
| 16 | The Role of Technology in Education: Reality, Pitfalls, and Potential | |
| IV | Methodological Advances for Educational Policy Analysis | |
| 17 | Meta-Analytic Effects for Policy | |
| 18 | Mixed-Method Research: Introduction and Application | |
| 19 | Basic Concepts in Hierarchical Linear Modeling with Applications for Policy Analysis | |
| V | American Educational Policy Making: Past and Future | |
| 20 | American Educational Policy: Constructing Crises and Crafting Solutions | |
| 21 | Educational Policy Analysis: The Treads Behind, the Trends Ahead | |
| Resources | |
| Biographical Statements | |
| Index | |
Format: Textbook Hardcover, 1st ed., 5
