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How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools
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How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools
Series: Continuous Improvement in Education Series
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A comprehensive analysis of the astonishing changes that elevated
the Chicago public school system from one of the worst in the
nation to one of the most improved. Â How a City Learned to
Improve Its Schools tells the story of the extraordinary
thirty-year school reform effort that changed the landscape of
public education in Chicago. Acclaimed educational researcher
Anthony S. Bryk joins five coauthors involved in Chicago-based
education reform, Sharon Greenberg, Albert Bertani, Penny Sebring,
Steven E. Tozer, and Timothy Knowles, to illuminate the many
factors that led to the ultimate success of Chicago Public Schools.
Beginning in 1987, Bryk and team lay out the civic context for
reform, outlining the systemic challenges such as segregation,
institutional racism, and income and resource disparities that
reformers grappled with as well as the social conflicts they faced.
Next, they analyze continuous improvement to teaching and learning,
including the recruitment and retention of high-quality educators
and leadership, a transformation validated by unprecedented
increases in benchmarks such as graduation rates and college
matriculation. This riveting account introduces key actors within
the schools, city government, and business community, and the
partnerships they forged. It also reveals the surprising yet
essential role of Chicago's innovative information infrastructure
in aligning disparate initiatives. In making clear how elements
such as advocacy, expanded civic capacity, improvement research,
and strong democracy contributed to large-scale progress in the
system's 600-plus schools, the book highlights the greater lessons
that the Chicago story offers for system improvement overall.
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