Detailed study of how real education reform works. The No Child Left Behind Act declared that improving education in every school in the United States was a top national priority. However, this act did not acknowledge how state departments of education have successfully constructed reforms for the past few decades, despite the power struggle between governors, legislators, school districts, and state boards of education. Drawing upon archival sources,...

This five-volume directory describes almost 1,200 discretionary grants and contracts supported by the Research to Practice Division of the Office of Special Education Programs. The projects are grouped into five sections representing the seven program areas of the newly reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Part D. This volume, the fifth of the directory, describes projects designed to assist state educational agencies and...

The Role of State Departments of Education in Complex School Reform uses in-depth case studies of two models of statewide school reform - Kentucky and Vermont - to examine the role of state departments in the reform process. Susan Follett Lusi's nearly 200 interviews and multiple site visits detail how these departments of education implemented their reform plans, and describe the effects of their choices on both the internal dynamics of the departments...