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Learning from L.A. - Institutional Change in American Public Education (Hardcover)
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Learning from L.A. - Institutional Change in American Public Education (Hardcover)
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Drawing on a four-year study of the last 40 years of education
reform in Los Angeles, Learning from L.A. captures the sweeping
change in American education. It puts forth a provocative argument:
while school reformers and education historians have tended to
focus on the success or failure of individual initiatives, they
have overlooked the fact that, over the past several decades, the
institution of public education itself has been transformed.
Colorful characters, dramatic encounters, and political skirmishes
enliven this rich account of the wrenching transformations that
took place in the Los Angeles Unified School District from the
1960s onward. The book focuses particularly on four key ideas that
emerged through a succession of reforms beginning in the
1990s-decentralization, standards, school choice, and grassroots
participation. Though the particular plans that gave rise to these
ideas may have faded, the ideas themselves have taken root and
developed in ways that those who inaugurated or participated in
these reforms never anticipated.
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