A Crisis of Confidence: Has America Lost Faith in Its Schools?

Institution	Stanford Univ., CA. Inst. for Research on Educational Finance and Governance.
Titel	A Crisis of Confidence: Has America Lost Faith in Its Schools?
Quelle	2 (1981) 3, (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Recht; Centralization; Educational Policy; Elementary Secondary Education; Financial Support; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Policy Formation; Public Opinion; Research Projects; School Support; Special Education; Underemployment; United Kingdom (Great Britain) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Centralisation; Zentralisierung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Finanzielle Förderung; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politische Betätigung; Öffentliche Meinung; Forschungsvorhaben; Schulförderverein; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Unterbeschäftigung
Abstract	This collection of short articles addresses several issues. The first article briefly discusses the growing lack of confidence in schools, with a glance at the role of the mass media. The second article, an interview on the same topic, looks at the state's loss of credibility regarding education and other areas in the United States and other countries. This article suggests that rather than a lack of confidence in schools, the crisis is really over who governs the system and whose interests are represented. The benefits of the teacher seniority system are examined in the next article. Another article looks at how policy frameworks affect policy choice, especially regarding the differences between special education policy in the United States and Britain. Briefly examined in another article are the current research activities at the Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance. A final longer article looks at the growing problem of overeducation. The author looks at several definitions of overeducation: decline in salaries of college graduates, lack of the jobs college graduates expected to find when they entered college, and workers who are overskilled. The article concludes that overeducation currently presents a problem to both individuals and the private and public sectors. (Author/JM)
Anmerkungen	Publications, Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance, School of Education; CERAS Building, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC