Christopher Bjork
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226309385
- eISBN:
- 9780226309552
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226309552.003.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Chapter one introduces the global political setting of the debates surrounding best education practices. Arguments for standardized testing and austere accountability measures are clashing with those ...
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Chapter one introduces the global political setting of the debates surrounding best education practices. Arguments for standardized testing and austere accountability measures are clashing with those more in favor of relaxed and student-centered education practices. Regarded as a world leader in education only a few decades ago, Japan is now embroiled in the debate and searching for answers. As policies in favor of yutori kyoiku, or relaxed education, trickle down to individual Japanese schools, the complex nature of the interaction between policy and practice is illuminated.Less
Chapter one introduces the global political setting of the debates surrounding best education practices. Arguments for standardized testing and austere accountability measures are clashing with those more in favor of relaxed and student-centered education practices. Regarded as a world leader in education only a few decades ago, Japan is now embroiled in the debate and searching for answers. As policies in favor of yutori kyoiku, or relaxed education, trickle down to individual Japanese schools, the complex nature of the interaction between policy and practice is illuminated.
Milbrey W. McLaughlin, W. Richard Scott, and Sarah N. Deschenes
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804762106
- eISBN:
- 9780804776295
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804762106.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social ...
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This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations, which occupy a special niche in American politics and civil society, use their position to change local agendas for youth and public perceptions of youth, and work to strengthen local community support systems. The book describes how youth advocacy organizations affect change in a fragmented urban policy environment. It considers the different constituencies that organizations target, including public officials and policies, specific service sectors, and community members, and looks at the multiple tactics advocates employ to advance their reform agendas, such as political campaigns, accountability measures, building civic capacity, research, and policy formation. This work further examines the importance of historical, organizational, and political contexts in explaining the strategies, actions, and consequences of advocacy organizations' efforts at the local level, bringing to light what is effective and why.Less
This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations, which occupy a special niche in American politics and civil society, use their position to change local agendas for youth and public perceptions of youth, and work to strengthen local community support systems. The book describes how youth advocacy organizations affect change in a fragmented urban policy environment. It considers the different constituencies that organizations target, including public officials and policies, specific service sectors, and community members, and looks at the multiple tactics advocates employ to advance their reform agendas, such as political campaigns, accountability measures, building civic capacity, research, and policy formation. This work further examines the importance of historical, organizational, and political contexts in explaining the strategies, actions, and consequences of advocacy organizations' efforts at the local level, bringing to light what is effective and why.
