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American School Reform: What Works, What Fails, and Why
Contributor(s): McDonald, Joseph P. (Author), Cities and Schools Research Group (Author)

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ISBN: 022612472X     ISBN-13: 9780226124728
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE: $32.55  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Urban
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform
- Education | Elementary
Dewey: 370.973
LCCN: 2013043365
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.11" W x 8.95" L (0.66 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 672
 
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Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's largest cities, American School Reform offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluate the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge--launched in 1994--alongside other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area. They look deeply at what school reform really is, how it works, how it fails, and what differences it can make nonetheless.

McDonald and his colleagues lay out several interrelated ideas in what they call a theory of action space. Frequently education policy gets so ambitious that implementing it becomes a near impossibility. Action space, however, is what takes shape when talented educators, leaders, and reformers guide the social capital of civic leaders and the financial capital of governments, foundations, corporations, and other backers toward true results. Exploring these extraordinary collaborations through their lifespans and their influences on future efforts, the authors provide political hope--that reform efforts can work, and that our schools can be made better.


Contributor Bio(s): McDonald, Joseph P.: - Joseph P. McDonald is professor of teaching and learning at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including, most recently, Going Online with Protocols and Going to Scale with New School Designs.Cities and Schools Research Group: - The Cities and Schools Research Group is Jolley Bruce Christman, Thomas B. Corcoran, Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Norm Fruchter, Gordon Pradl, Gabriel Reich, Mark Smylie, and Joan Talbert.

 
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