Who's in Charge Here?: The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policy » (1st Edition)

NOEL EPSTEIN is former education editor of the WASHINGTON POST and the author of LANGUAGE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SCHOOLS, an influential work in the bilingual education debate. He is director of Everybody Wins, DC!, a nonprofit group that promotes literacy and learning among disadvantaged children.

As politicians thunder about making public schools accountable, US scholars of education and law suggest ways of thinking about, and possible changes in, the American education system so that praise and blame can more easily be attributed to a particular individual. Their topics include who should be in charge, the legal boundaries of education governance, centralized policymaking, a teacher supply policy, and managing the school's family role. The Denver-based Education Commission of the States produced the volume. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR