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Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Harvard Univ Pr
Publication date April 30, 2006
Pages 205
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780674021099
ISBN-10 0674021096
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight 0.55 lbs.
Original list price $29.00
Other format details university press
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What happens to federal and state policies as they move from legislative chambers to individual districts, schools, and, ultimately, classrooms? Although policy implementation is generally seen as an administrative problem, James Spillane reminds us that it is also a psychological problem.

After intensively studying several school districts' responses to new statewide science and math teaching policies in the early 1990s, Spillane argues that administrators and teachers are inclined to assimilate new policies into current practices. As new programs are communicated through administrative levels, the understanding of them becomes increasingly distorted, no matter how sincerely the new ideas are endorsed. Such patterns of well-intentioned misunderstanding highlight the need for systematic training and continuing support for the local administrators and teachers who are entrusted with carrying out large-scale educational change, classroom by classroom.



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9780674013230 | details & prices | 208 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $57.50
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from Harvard Univ Pr (April 30, 2006)
9780674021099 | details & prices | 205 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $29.00
About: What happens to federal and state policies as they move from legislative chambers to individual districts, schools, and, ultimately, classrooms?

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