00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861771789 Buklod 20100302142914.0 a r |||| u| ta 170830s1972 mau rbs |||1 u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00007337928 DLC BAG rda eng LC 89 W57 Wirt, Frederick M. author. The political web of American schools Frederick M. Wirt, Michael W. Kirst. Boston Little, Brown and Company ©1972. xv, 285 pages 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and indexes. pt. I. The political elements of the school system. Schools and the political system ; The myth of apolitical education ; The analytic scheme of systems theory ; Systems analysis and the politics of education -- Schools and system support. State-school linkages in democratic thought ; The instruments of political socialization ; The effects of political socialization ; Models of socialization and political theories -- The origins and agents of demand inputs. Values and the origin of conflict ; Interest groups as transfer agents ; Conclusion -- Access channels to school policy making. The arroyos of school board elections ; Community power structure and school policy ; Democracy and school policy -- The local conversion process: boards and subsystems. School boards ; School professionals ; Community control and decentralization ; The schools and general government ; Emerging student role in policy making ; Participation vs. bureaucratization -- Referendum in the conversion process. Structures, cognitions, and outputs ; Status and ethnic support ; Tax size, turnout, and referenda success ; Local conversion, stress, and theory -- The state conversion process. Growth of the state role in local schools ; The authoritative state political system ; State subsystems ; Impact of political culture on the conversion process ; Conclusion -- pt. II. Three policy-making areas in public education. ESEA and intergovernmental relations. The law as output ; The politics of Title I project approval ; The politics of other Title I objectives ; Summary -- Southern school desegregation. The judiciary as a political subsystem ; Input and conversion in the Brown cases ; Feedback to the Brown decisions ; Systems applications to the 1964 Civil Rights Act ; The judiciary in the political system -- Curricular decisions in the political system. Curricular criteria and decision methods ; Inputs from traditional curriculum supporters ; Inputs of demands for change ; Demands and support from local community forces ; Districtive features of curricular policy making -- pt. III. Political science and the study of school policy. Limits and uses of the systems analysis framework ; The new politicization of American schools ; Conclusion. Education and state United States. Education Political aspects. Kirst, Michael W. author. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN LC 89 W57 Book