American School Reform (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	April 2014
Authors:	Joseph P. McDonald
Dimensions:	159 x 236 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-12469-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > General
LSN:	0-226-12469-X
Barcode:	9780226124698

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