Policy Effectiveness in Education: An American Inquiry (Donald Warren教授)

　　教育政策的效果：美国的探究

　　Professor Donald Warren

　　(School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington)

　　Federal education policy in the United States has taken unprecedented directions over the past decade. Historically, it has exerted only minor influence on funding, state and local policy, faculty and teacher quality, and certainly on curriculum and program requirements. In recent years, however, federal actions have posed direct challenges to the long standing American tradition of local and state control over public schools and universities. The best known, and most hotly debated, example of the change is the federal law popularly referred to as the No Child Left Behind Act. The speech will consider why the law has stimulated such strong opposition and what the reactions portend for federal education policy in general. Two issues have risen to the surface of public discourse: 1) How do we know whether a policy is effective (and what the range of outcomes may be)? 2) Can the United States, with its diverse population of social classes and minorities and currently faltering economy, promote more inclusive educational opportunity and high standards of student academic achievement simultaneously?

　　Dr. Donald Warren is a professor Emeritus of history of education and policy at the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington. As a distinguished scholar, he was the former University Dean of Education, Indiana University. His extensive publications include the  widely cited edited book, History, education, and public policy: Recovering the American educational past (Berkeley: McCutchan Publishing Corp., 1978) and so on.

　　

　　美国印第安纳大学十大网赌网址信誉官网荣誉退休教授、前经理。这位资深教授的主要研究方向是教育史、美国联邦教育政策、教育研究方法论。

　　时间：2008年5月16日（周五）下午2：00－4：00

　　地点：世界十大正规网赌电教楼207