No Adult Left Behind

How Politics Hijacks Education Policy and Hurts Kids

AvVladimir Kogan

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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For decades, Americans have debated why our students consistently score lower than their peers in other developed countries. While most debates have focused on school spending, curriculum, teacher quality, and teachers' unions, No Adult Left Behind argues that local democratic control is the root of the problem. Elected school boards govern local school districts, but only adults vote in local elections - most of whom don't have children or care about academics. This leads to educational debates that are centered around issues that adults care most about, such as partisanship, identity politics, property values, and employment concerns, while the needs of students get left behind. In identifying the misalignment between the interests of school children and the political and policy agendas of the adults who control education, No Adult Left Behind stands to become a landmark study on modern education politics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-08-21
Mått:230 x 152 x 20 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009606318

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Vladimir Kogan is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University and one of America's leading scholars of education politics. Kogan previously covered education at the Voice of San Diego, a pioneering nonprofit specializing in investigative journalism.

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'This book could not be more timely! In some ways the debates and issues schools are struggling with today are new. But, as Vlad's book shows, many of them are not. The history presented about polarized schooling debates, and ways to frame them, are invaluable as we contend with what seems like an era of more continuous cultural wars.' Dan Goldhaber, Affiliate Research Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington

Innehållsförteckning

What are Schools For?; 2. Skin in the Game; 3. Adults Follow Partisan Leaders on Education Policy; 4. Curriculum Battles in an Era of Nationalized Politics; 5. Adult Culture Wars and Student Academic Achievement; 6. The Color of School Employment; 7. Bootleggers, Baptists, and Building Closures; 8. Housing Markets Create Educational NIMBYs; 9. A Framework for Education Reform.