Good Politics  

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Neckerman, Kathryn M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: American Journal of Education vol. 108 no. 2 (Feb. 2000), page 135-145.
Topik: POLITICS; good politics

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One of educational historians oft told tales is the progressive era triumph of bureaucracy. Denouncing the ward politicians who had run the schools, early twentieth century reformers centralized school governance, made school boards smaller, and installed professional educators in district leadership. In fact and in discourse, politics became more marginal Later on, of course, historians revisited the era with skeptical eyes, showing how urban political machines had served their immigrant and working clss constitutents and portraying the school bureaucracies as elitist and unresponsive to community concerns. Most recently in a starnfe reversal, city and state politicians have cast themselves in the same role progressive reforms claimed a century ago, seeking to purge the city schools of waste and corruption and runthem according to second business principles. But educators and school researchers remain ambivalent about local politics. Despite a few mayoral take overs, city politicians are usually regarded as an adjunt to bloated school bureaucracies, they are still part charters, cjoice, site based management, and other devices to free schools from the constraints of external regulation. In their scenarios, the political activity that advances reform is the school level mobilization of parents and community members. Only grassroots politics is good politics .....

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