The Education Debate - Kirp, David (Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy,; Macpherson, Kevin (Improvement Specialist, Improvement Specialist, W
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In The Education Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know®, David Kirp and Kevin Macpherson provide a balanced and accessible overview of the key policy and practice issues in pre k-12 education today. They expose the fault lines of the major debates and focus on equity of resources and opportunities and the tensions between market and bureaucratic mechanisms to drive school improvement. The Education Debate is a primer for concerned parents, educational policymakers and administrators, and undergraduate and graduate students in education courses who need a solid grasp of the major debates in contemporary education policy.…mehr

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In The Education Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know®, David Kirp and Kevin Macpherson provide a balanced and accessible overview of the key policy and practice issues in pre k-12 education today. They expose the fault lines of the major debates and focus on equity of resources and opportunities and the tensions between market and bureaucratic mechanisms to drive school improvement. The Education Debate is a primer for concerned parents, educational policymakers and administrators, and undergraduate and graduate students in education courses who need a solid grasp of the major debates in contemporary education policy.
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David Kirp is a Professor of the University and Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education, a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Washington Post , and a senior scholar at the Learning Policy Institute. His most recent books are The College Dropout Scandal (Oxford, 2019) and Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools (Oxford, 2013), which was awarded the 2014 Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association. Kevin Macpherson is an Improvement Specialist on WestEd's improvement science team. He has served as a classroom teacher and district-level special education administrator. Macpherson currently works with state education agencies within the National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI). He earned his Ph.D. in Special Education from UC Berkeley, where he researched how social-psychological factors shape student outcomes.