Policy Studies for Educational Leaders: An Introduction, 3/E by Frances C. Fowler	List Price: $83.68
For courses in Educational Policy and Educational Leadership.   Written by a leading name in the area of educational policy, the third edition of this comprehensive text once again encourages future educational leaders to be proactive rather than reactive, and equips them with an understanding of educational policy and the important political theories upon which it is based.   Coverage not only addresses theory, analysis, development, and implementation of educational policy, but also explores the reasons for change in educational policy, ways to track its evolution, and techniques for influencing its ultimate destination. Finally, it wraps up with a look at the history of educational policy that helps put everything that has come before into an understandable context.   NEW! Economic information (ch. 3) has been updated -- It incorporates the economic changes resulting both from the expected downturn of the business cycle and from the impact of the war in Iraq.   NEW! Up-to-date news stories for analysis and case studies have been provided. All the news stories for analysis for the second edition have been replaced by new stories. Stories have been included that relate not only to the major concepts of the chapter they followed but also to current issues such as charter schools, bilingual ed, high-stakes testing, and the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act. NEW! Implementation chapter has been expanded and updated --now contains a section that presents the new research on implementers as learners as well as new research on the challenges of scaling programs up from one or a few sites to many.  NEW! Education Policy in the United States: Retrospective and Prospective (Ch. 12) has been signficantly revised. Chapter 12 now includes a lengthy discussion of the No Child Left Behind Act as well as suggestions about how education leaders can exercise their influence to shape the law to reflect some of their major concerns about it.   Internet Assignments —Interspersed among the end-of-chapter activities. Gives students a chance to use the Internet to track educational policy—helps them become comfortable with the Internet and its capacity for providing information. Two Appendices of URLs—One listing major policy players and one providing instructions for locating policy information by state. Offers prospective teachers a ready-made repertoire of Internet resources—can serve as springboards for in-class and homework assignments as well as individual self-study projects. A Glossary —At the end of the text. Assists students to understand the nomenclature of the educational policy field. An entire chapter devoted to policy values and ideology. Emphasizes the fact that policy making is inherently intertwined with values—lays the foundation for students' understanding of where and when struggles over values arise. Emphasis on educational policy at the state level—Evident from Chapter 6 on. Apprises students of the importance of the individual state in making policy—explores this least-understood arena of the four involved in American educational policy. Figures and Tables - summarize important points and provide an easy reference for the most important principles of political action. End of chapter activities -- every chapter (except Ch. 9 & 12) ends with at lest four of these five types of learning activities for homework or class disucssion: Questions and Activities for Discussion, a case study, a news story for analysis, a pro-con debate, and an Internet assignment. These activities can also be used as the basis for short papers. Focus Questions and Activities –At the beginning and end of each chapter, respectively. Organizes chapter content–identifies key points before the chapter is engaged and offers a structure for assessing gained knowledge at the end. For F Chapter 1    Policy - What It Is and Where It Comes From                     Why Study Policy?                     Defining Policy                     The Transformation of the Education Policy Environment                     The Policy Process                     The School Leader and Policy StudiesChapter 2    Power and Education Policy                     Defining Power                     Discourse and Power                     The Three-Dimensional Model of Power                     Power in Educational Settings                     Ethical Issues Surrounding PowerChapter 3    The Economy and Demographics                     Why Analyze the Policy Environment?                     The Economic Environment                     Demographics and the Policy Environment                     Implications for Education Policy                     How About Large New Investments in Schools?Chapter 4    The Political System and Political Culture                     The Importance of the Less Obvious                     The U.S. Political System                     Implications of the Political System for School Leaders                     Political CultureChapter 5    Values and Ideology                     The Importance of Ideas                     Basic Values in U.S. Politics                     Values Interacting with Each Other                     Ideology                     Major U.S. Ideologies                     Other Ideologies                     School Leaders Caught in Ideological Crossfire Chapter 6    The Major Education Policy Actors                     The Dramatis Personae of the Policy Drama                     Goverment Actors                     Nongovernmental Policy Actors                     Identifying and Learning About Policy Actors                     Counteracting "Swiss-Cheese Journalism" Chapter 7    Setting the Stage and Getting On It:  Issue Definition and Agenda Setting                     Perception and Reality in the Policy Process                     Issue Definition: Setting the Stage                     The Policy Agenda                     School Leaders and the Early Stages of the Policy ProcessChapter 8    Getting the Words and the Money: Policy Formulation and Policy Adoption                     The High Visibility Stages of the Policy Process                     Policy Formulation and Adoption in Legislatures                     Policy Formulation and Adoption in Administrative Agencies                     Policy Formulation and Adoption in the Courts                     Influencing Policy Formulation and AdoptionChapter 9    Looking at Policies:  Policy Instruments and Cost Effectiveness                     Learning to Analyze Public Policies                     Lowi's Techniques of Control                     McDonnell and Elmore's Policy Instruments                     Cost Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness AnalysisChapter 10    Policy Implementation:  Getting People to Carry Out a Policy                     The Surprising Difficulty of Implementation                     The Research on Implementation                     How to Implement a New Policy                     Implementing Unpopular PoliciesChapter 11    Policy Evaluation:  Determining If the Policy Works                     A Nervous-Making Topic                     Definitions Associated with Policy Evaluation                     A Brief History of Educational Policy Evaluation                     Characteristics of Policy Evaluations                     Facilitating Meaningful Policy Evaluations                     Acting on an Evaluation ReportChapter 12    Education Policy in the United State:  Retrospective and Prospective                     If We Aren't in Kansas, Where Are We?                     Four Theoretical Frameworks                     Retrospective on U.S. Education Policy                     Is No Child Left Behind the New Paradigm?Glossary Appendix A    Useful Web Sites for Following Education Policy Appendix B    How to Locate Government Web Sites for Specific States References urther Reading sections–At the end of each chapter (except Chapter 9). Provides an annotated bibliography of chapter-related books and articles–is ideal for assignments and self-study.
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