American School Reform
What Works, What Fails, and Why
Joseph P McDonald author Cities and Schools Research Group author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Published:2nd May '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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 many 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.
- Winner of PROSE (Education Practice) 2015
ISBN: 9780226124698
Dimensions: 24mm x 17mm x 2mm
Weight: 454g
208 pages