The polls - trends: governance and reform of public education in the United States

Article Abstract:

An analysis of the answers to the most repeated survey questions addressing the governance of public education shows that the issue of public education has several political as well as substantive complications. The most controversial issues include public funding for private and parochial schools, school desegregation, equalization of funding and national standards. In addition, the surveys failed to generate complete information upon which a general prediction of school politics could be formulated.

Analysis, Public schools, Public opinion, Educational surveys

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Health services reform

Article Abstract:

'The Reform of Health Care Systems: A Review of Seventeen OECD Countries' provides a very useful introduction to how 17 OECD countries are implementing health care reform. It is divided into two parts, the first of which gives an overall summary of how each country is dealing with health care delivery and financing problems. It is 'a little difficult to read' because of its ambiguous dicussions but this is balanced by the detailed information given in the second section. Overall,

Social policy, Health care reform, Literature, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

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School reform and the ecology-of-games metaphor

Article Abstract:

Norton Long's essay 'The Local Community as an Ecology of Games' can be a useful source of plans for educational reform. Long's thesis is that ecological planning of cities depends on collective action and not merely on individual attempts. Long believes that urban education is also a collective achievement. School reform policies should be directed toward an understanding of the need for collective effort for sustaining the ecology.

Research, Criticism and interpretation, Educational innovations, Long, Norton

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