Description: The National Society for the Study of Education Officers of the Society The Society's Committee on Policy Making in Education Associated Contributors Editors' Preface by Ann Lieberman and Milbrey W. McLaughlin Acknowledgment I. A Useable Past: Using History in Educational Policy Elisabeth Hansot and David Tyack II. Public Policy and the Handicapped: The Case of Mainstreaming Seymour B. Sarason and John Doris III. The Courts and Educational Policy Louis Fischer IV. Child Development Knowledge and Educational Practice: Using What We Know Edward Zigler and Sharon L. Kagan V. The Policy Implications of Status Variables and Schooling VI. Bridging the Gap: Policy Research Rooted in Practice Gene E. Hall and Susan F. Loucks VII. Strategic Choice in Federal Education Policy: The Compliance-Assistance Trade-Off Richard F. Elmore and Milbrey W. McLaughlin VIII. Progress and Problems: The Paradox of State Reform Jerome T. Murphy IX. Research on Teaching: Policy Implications for Teacher Education Karen Kepler Zumwalt X. Practice Makes Policy: The Tensions of School Improvement Ann Lieberman Name Index Subject Index Information About Membership in the Society Publications of the Society

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