Brewer Leads Session on Education
November 6, 2008 11:19 AM
Dominic Brewer of the USC Rossier School of Education was a presenter at the 25th anniversary conference of the Policy Analysis Center for Education (PACE) in Sacramento last month.
Brewer, who holds the Clifford H. and Betty C. Allen Professorship in Urban Leadership and is a co-director of PACE, led a breakout session on education governance.
The nonpartisan research center is jointly based at USC, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. It released a new study, “Conditions of Education in California,” with a chapter on governance written by Brewer and USC Rossier urban education Ph.D. students Icela Pelayo and June Ahn.
In it, Brewer argues that the complexity and irrationality of the state’s educational governance system is a critical obstacle to improvement. “The structure of the system is overly hierarchical and state-driven, with limited accountability throughout,” he wrote.
The study can be found at http://pace.berkeley.edu/pace_publications.html
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