Politics and Policy Knowledge in Federal Education

TRAMA

Policy knowledge derived from data, information, and evidence is a powerful tool for contributing to policy discussions and debates, and for understanding and improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of government action. For decades, politicians, advocates, reformers, and researchers have simultaneously espoused this value, while also paradoxically lamenting the lack of impact of policy knowledge on decision making, and the failure of related reforms. This text explores this paradox, identifying the reliance on a proverb of using policy knowledge to supplant politics as a primary culprit for these perceived failures. The evidence in this book suggests that any consideration of the role of policy knowledge in decision making must be considered alongside, rather than in place of, considerations of the ideologies, interests, and institutional factors that shape political decisions. This contextually rich approach offers practical insights to understand the role of policy knowledge, and to better leverage it to support good governance decisions.

SOMMARIO

Chapter 1: Policy Knowledge, Politics, and a Proverb of Decision Making The Evidence-Based Proverb and Policy Knowledge as Panacea A Research Approach to Tackle the Evidence-Based Proverb Organization of the BookChapter 2: No Panacea - The Purposes, Uses, and Limitations of Policy Knowledge Defining a Typology of Policy Knowledge The Purposes and Creation of Policy Knowledge Direct and Indirect Uses of Data, Information, and Evidence Program Design and the Production of Policy KnowledgeChapter 3: Challenging the Proverb: A Balanced Model for Governance Decisions Politics and Policy Knowledge as Drivers of Decision Making  A Balanced Framework of Politics and Policy Knowledge Political Elements of Policy KnowledgeChapter 4: The Performance Movement and other Evidence-Based Reforms The Performance Movement: 50 Years of Evidence-Based Reforms Evidence-Based Policy: The Modern Reform Agenda Decision Making in Federal Education PolicyChapter 5: The Roots of Modern Federal Education Policy Three Transformations of Education in the United States A Federal Role for Elementary and Secondary Education A Federal Role for Higher EducationImplications for the Case StudiesChapter 6: Improving Access to Higher Education HEA Titles and Background Politics and Policy Knowledge at HEA's Passage Major Eras of Student Loan ProgramsSummary of the CaseChapter 7: Education for the Disadvantaged ESEA Titles and Background Politics and Policy Knowledge at ESEA's Passage Major Eras of Title I Grant Programs Summary of the CaseChapter 8: Contending with the Evidence-Based Proverb The Political-Rational Continuum Incremental and Comprehensive Decisions The Implications of Program Goals and Design Quality versus Purpose: Which Policy Knowledge gets Used?Chapter 9: Moving Beyond the Evidence-Based ProverbUnanswered Questions and a Research AgendaCreating Policy Knowledge: Purpose and QualityUnderstanding, Influencing, and Improving DecisionsLooking Forward: Federal Education Policy and Evidence-Based Policy

AUTORE

Steven Putansu is a Senior Design Methodologist at the US Government Accountability Office, Professorial Lecturer at American University, USA, and recipient of a 2017 Arthur S. Flemming Award for Federal Management and Leadership.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783030383978
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm Ø 454 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XXIII, 215 p. 17 illus., 13 illus. in color.
• Pagine Arabe: 215
• Pagine Romane: xxiii