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Fixing Urban Schools
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2010
Summary
Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one. Cleveland, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., are struggling to recreate their failed school systems, and many more cities are likely to follow. City leaders need more than new superintendents. They need stable reform strategies strong enough to move an entrenched system. Unfortunately, it is not clear where they can turn for help. Education experts are deeply divided about whether teacher retraining or new standards are enough to reform a struggling city system, or whether more fundamental changes, such as family choice and family-run schools, are needed. Based on new research, this book identifies the essential elements of reform strategies that can transform school performance in big cities beset by poverty, social instability, racial isolation, and labor unrest. It also suggests ways that local leaders can assemble the necessary funding and political support to make such strategies work.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-3613-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-1625-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
115
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1. Struggling to Improve City Schools No access Pages 1 - 12
2. How Different Reform Proposals Are Supposed to Work No access Pages 13 - 26
3. Agreements and Disagreements on How Reforms Work No access Pages 27 - 42
4. Ideological Hot Buttons No access Pages 43 - 60
5. Creating Reforms That Can Work No access Pages 61 - 84
6. Brookings Program Plans No access Pages 85 - 90
Appendix A: Materials for Simulation of Education Reform Strategy Building No access Pages 91 - 98
