Besieged; school boards and the future of education politics.LB2831 2004-027179 0-8157-3683-5 Besieged be·siege tr.v. be·sieged, be·sieg·ing, be·sieg·es 1. To surround with hostile forces. 2. To crowd around; hem in. 3. ; school boards and the future of education politics. Title main entry. Ed. by William William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack G. Howell. Brookings Institution Brookings Institution, at Washington, D.C.; chartered 1927 as a consolidation of the Institute for Government Research (est. 1916), the Institute of Economics (est. 1922), and the Robert S. Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government (est. 1924). Press, [c]2005 356 p. $29.95 (pa) These papers were originally presented at a 2003 conference on school board politics sponsored by the Program on Education Policy and Governance Governance makes decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance. It consists either of a separate process or of a specific part of management or leadership processes. Sometimes people set up a government to administer these processes and systems. and the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard. Using case studies and quantitative analyses, the authors consider school boards' interactions with politicians, teachers' unions and the public. They argue that school boards perform some administrative functions well, but that they are undermined in their efforts to institute desired reforms by various political pressures. |
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