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Summary
Summary
Reports on a comparative study of education policy in Australia, Sweden, the UK, and the US, which vary significantly in their approaches to governing education. The central objectives are to analyze and compare the particular balance that each of the four countries has struck between centralization and decentralization and the consequences of that balance for quality, equality, and control in the provision of schooling. Among the perspectives are forms of decentralization and their implications, the politics of choice and market-oriented school reform, and the liberal paradox. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author Notes
William Boyd is a writer who was born in Ghana on March 7, 1952. He was educated at Gordonstoun school; and then the University of Nice, France, the University of Glasgow, and finally Jesus College, Oxford. Between 1980 and 1983 he was a lecturer in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and it was while he was there that his first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), was published. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005.
Boyd was selected in 1983 as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Novelists" in a promotion run by Granta magazine and the Book Marketing Council. His novels include: A Good Man in Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981; An Ice-Cream War, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982; Brazzaville Beach, published in 1991, and Any Human Heart, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2002. Restless, the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother had been recruited as a spy during World War II, was published in 2006 and won the Novel Award in the 2006 Costa Book Awards. Boyd published Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel in early 2012.
In 2015 his title, Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Clay, Amory made the new Zealand Best Seller List.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. vii |
| Series Editors' Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction and Overview | p. 1 |
| 1 Forms of Decentralization and their Implications for Education | p. 18 |
| 2 The Liberal Paradox | p. 47 |
| 3 The Politics of Choice and Market-oriented School Reform in Britain and the United States: Explaining the Differences | p. 73 |
| 4 Educational Decentralization as a Policy Strategy in an Era of Fiscal Stress | p. 88 |
| 5 The Evolution of Education Reform in Great Britain and the United States: Implementation Convergence of Two Macro-policy Approaches | p. 103 |
| 6 School Effects from Decentralization | p. 129 |
| 7 Decentralization by or for School Improvement | p. 139 |
| 8 Redefining the Concept of Educational Equality through Decentralization | p. 149 |
| 9 Curriculum Implementation and Change | p. 160 |
| 10 Decentralization and Teachers: Professional Status Cannot be Granted, it Has to be Acquired | p. 174 |
| 11 Secondary Headteachers' Perspectives on Locally Managed Schools | p. 183 |
| 12 System Restructuring, School-based Management and the Achievement of Effectiveness in Australian Education | p. 196 |
| Name Index | p. 230 |
| Subject Index | p. 234 |
