Who's in charge here? :  the tangled web of school governance and policy / 
Noel Epstein, editor. 
 - Denver :  Washington, D.C. :  Education Commission of the States ;  Brookings Institution Press,  2006 
 - ix, 303 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : who should be in charge of our schools? / Noel Epstein -- Turning points : a history of American school governance / Michael W. Kirst -- The Tenth Amendment and other paper tigers : the legal boundaries of education governance / James E. Ryan -- Recovering from an accident : repairing governance with comparative advantage / Paul T. Hill -- A solution that lost its problem : centralized policymaking and classroom gains / Larry Cuban -- Less than meets the eye : standards, testing, and fear of federal control / Susan H. Fuhrman -- A teacher supply policy for education : how to meet the "highly qualified teacher" challenge / Linda Darling-Hammond and Gary Sykes -- Multiple choice questions : the road ahead / Henry M. Levin -- The American kibbutz? : managing the school's family role / Noel Epstein. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780815724711 (pbk : alk. paper) 0815724713 (pbk : alk. paper) 0815724721 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780815724728 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004016556 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>School boards--United States.<br/>Education and state--United States.<br/>Consejo técnico escolar <br/>Educación y Estado --Estados Unidos<br/>Asociaciones estudiantiles 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB 2831  / W628 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>379.1/531