Contemporary Federal Education Policy and Rural Schools: A Critical Policy Analysis

摘要: This article focuses on contemporary federal education policy as it manifests in rural schools. Rural schools differ appreciably from nonrural terms of organizational systems, structures, and culture. Federal policies that drive school improvement initiatives (e.g., those regulating the functioning managing distribution resources to schools) are often not attentive such differences, adopting one-size-fits-all approaches resulting contexts ineffective even harmful communities. The few national explicitly designed for schools, moreover, generally fail engage state regional variations characterize seemingly unpredictable results work against announced goals. considers three major educational post–No Child Left Behind era: Race Top grant program, School Improvement Grant (SIG) Ed...