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The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education
Contributor(s): Boyd, William Lowe (Editor), Kerchner, Charles Taylor (Editor), Blyth, Mark (Editor)

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 ISBN: 189179292X     ISBN-13: 9781891792922
Publisher: Harvard Education PR
OUR PRICE: $30.40  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2008
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform
- Education | Urban
- Education | Administration - General
LCCN: 2007941373
Physical Information: 208 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 197
 
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In The Transformation of Great American School Districts, William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth argue that urban education reform can best be understood as a long process of institutional change, rather than as a series of failed projects. They examine the core assumptions that underlay the Progressive Era model of public education--apolitical governance, local control, professional hierarchy, and the logic of confidence--and show that recent developments in school governance have challenged virtually all of these assumptions.

Drawing on case studies of five urban districts--Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, and Los Angeles--they trace the rise of new ideas and trends that are reshaping the institution of public education: mayoral control, shifting civic coalitions, federal and state involvement, standards-based accountability, and the role of educational outsiders in district administration. Although each city has evolved along a different path, the editors argue that a set of new underlying ideas is being auditioned in the transition to a new institutional model and describe the process by which institutional change occurs.

Contributor Bio(s): Boyd, William Lowe: - William Lowe Boyd is Batschelet Chair Professor of Educational Leadership at the Pennsylvania State University and editor of the American Journal of Education.Kerchner, Charles Taylor: - Charles Taylor Kerchner is research professor at Claremont Graduate University.Blyth, Mark: - Mark Blyth is associate professor of political science at the Johns Hopkins University and the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century.
 
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