ATGVG@ASUACAD.BITNET (Gene Glass) (02/28/90)
The Fall 1989 issue of EEPA arrived in many mailboxes
this week. Here is the table on contents and some excerpts
from a review of a particularly intersting book.
EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS
Volume 11, No. 3 Fall 1989
ARTICLES:
Educational Reform in the 1980s: Explaining Some Surprising
Success
Joseph Murphy ...................... 209
How Standardized is School Testing? An Exploratory
Observational Study of Standardized Group Testing in
Kindergarten
Kenneth H. Wodtke, Fredrika Harper, Marlene Schommer and
Perry Brunelli ..................... 223
Alternative Teacher Certification: Its Policy Implications
for Classroom and Personnel Practice
Frank W. Lutz and Jerry B. Hutton .. 237
Toward a Conceptual Framework for Mixed-Method Evaluation
Designs
Jennifer C. Greene, Valerie J. Caracelli and
Wendy F. Graham .................... 255
Observations on Building Public Confidence in Education
C. M. Achilles, M. Nan Lintz, and W. W. Wayson
................................... 275
The Struggle for Control of Teacher Education: A Case Study
Nona A. Prestine ................... 285
Nontraditional Recruits to Mathematics and Science Teaching
Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Linda Darling-Hammond, and
Lisa Hudson ........................ 301
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Courts and American Education Law, by Tyll van Geel
Martha M. McCarthy .................. 324
The Micro-Politics of the School: Towards a Theory of
School Organization, by Stephen J. Ball
Guy Benveniste ...................... 326
The final item above is a review of a very interesting
book that is recently becoming recognized, though published
in 1987. Stephen Ball is the current Editor of the Journal
of Educational Policy, published in Great Britain. Here
follows some excerpts from Guy Benveniste's review of Ball's
book:
"...the book provides a new approach to understanding and
explaining how schools operate." (p.326)
"The main contribution of the research lies in its
creativity. Many topics emerge in this book that have been
rarely treated by organizational theorists. Just to give an
example, humor is discussed. Ridicule is an important weapon
in an organizational culture that is rather insecure about
what is good practice and that therefore seeks reassurance
in myths that often acquire a pompous importance." (p.326)
"This is an important work, comparable in some respects
to Lortie's 1975 classic 'Schoolteacher.'" (p.327)
"This study differs from a more conventional sociology of
organizations because it is not designed to please corporate
or government clients who happen to hire organizational
experts and who see the organization as a means to given
ends." (p.328)
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GENE V GLASS ATGVG AT ASUACAD
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 602-965-2692
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY