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An indispensable book for administrators, policymakers, scholars, and practitioners, Urban School Reform presents a revealing portrait of reform efforts while identifying the full range of issues that education reformers will need to address in districts across the country in the years ahead.
Today's urban school reformers face a bewildering array of challenges. Urgent problems pertaining to governance, management, labor relations, classroom instruction, and numerous other areas face those who wish to reform and improve urban schools. Having undergone one of the nation's most comprehensive school reform efforts in recent years, San Diego has been a site of nationwide interest--one that is uncommonly well suited to learning about the challenges facing all reformers.
This timely book addresses the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform by looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego. In essays by an impressive gathering of scholars and practitioners from across the country, the book considers crucial dimensions of reform efforts in the San Diego schools, including performance, governance, the external environment, central leadership and management, district infrastructure, support services, and school-level instructional efforts. The result is a full-scale assessment of San Diego's reform efforts--a record of unmistakable relevance and value to other urban reform movements throughout the United States.
Today's urban school reformers face a bewildering array of challenges. Urgent problems pertaining to governance, management, labor relations, classroom instruction, and numerous other areas face those who wish to reform and improve urban schools. Having undergone one of the nation's most comprehensive school reform efforts in recent years, San Diego has been a site of nationwide interest--one that is uncommonly well suited to learning about the challenges facing all reformers.
This timely book addresses the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform by looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego. In essays by an impressive gathering of scholars and practitioners from across the country, the book considers crucial dimensions of reform efforts in the San Diego schools, including performance, governance, the external environment, central leadership and management, district infrastructure, support services, and school-level instructional efforts. The result is a full-scale assessment of San Diego's reform efforts--a record of unmistakable relevance and value to other urban reform movements throughout the United States.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 Board Governance and External Constituencies
- CHAPTER 2 The Labor-Management Showdown
- CHAPTER 3 Flip-Flops in School Reform: An Evolutionary Theory of Decentralization
- CHAPTER 4 Building and Sustaining an Infrastructure for Learning
- CHAPTER 5 Reforming the Principalship
- CHAPTER 6 Standards-Based Reform and Low-Performing Schools: A Case of Reciprocal Accountability
- CHAPTER 7 Toward a Portfolio of Schools: High School Renewal
- CHAPTER 8 The Promise and Challenge of Accountability in Public Schooling
- CHAPTER 9 Half Empty or Half Full? Challenges and Progress in Hiring Reform
- CHAPTER 10 The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Educational Reform
- CHAPTER 11 The Evolution of School Choice
- CHAPTER 12 Charter Schools: Opportunities and Challenges
- CHAPTER 13 Addressing Variability and Vulnerability: Promoting the Academic Achievement of English Learners
- CHAPTER 14 Reforming Special Education
- CHAPTER 15 Performance Trends and the Blueprint for Student Success
- CHAPTER 16 Reflections of an Urban Reformer
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX