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Belzer, Alisa; Drennon, Cassandra; Smith, Cristine – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 2001
In Chapter Five, Alisa Belzer, Cassandra Drennon and Cristine Smith provide an overview of the challenges facing state-level professional development systems. The authors begin the chapter with a brief history of professional development in adult basic education, noting shifts in the funding and priority of professional development in the field.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Professional Development, Profiles, State Programs
Feir, Robert E. – 1984
Beginning with a capsule history of United States education reform efforts and an examination of the American "myth" of the apolitical nature of education, this paper explores the political bases of education policy. Reviewing the literature on educational politics with a particular concern for recent curriculum reform efforts at the state level,…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational History