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New Hope for Urban High Schools - Cultural Reform, Moral Leadership, and Community Partnership (Hardcover)
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New Hope for Urban High Schools - Cultural Reform, Moral Leadership, and Community Partnership (Hardcover)
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The last sixty years have seen tremendous strides in high school
education. More young people of all races and backgrounds are
graduating from high school, with more credits in tougher courses,
than ever before. However, our dropout rate is still too high and
far too many graduates are not prepared for college. High school
reform for city schools has been particularly challenging where
poverty and racism have undermined the high school experience.
Educators have relied upon two reform strategies: the curricular
strategy focuses on the academic content that is delivered in the
classroom, content reformers have adjusted. They also have
restructured the high school itself to maximize the impact of the
classroom. This book offers an additional strategy, one essential
for real change: the cultural reform strategy. Cultural change--a
fundamental change in the beliefs, attitudes and expectations of
the stakeholders--is difficult to achieve. Yet, without a change in
the culture of the high school, curricular and structural reforms
will have limited impact on raising student engagement. The authors
illustrate the history of high school reform, and develop a case
for the necessity of cultural reform, by taking an intimate look at
one very typical urban high school--Dorchester High School in
Boston. Dorchester High faced trends, policies, and challenges
similar to those of high schools all over the country, so that the
lessons learned there should be instructive for urban high schools
across America. Gonsalves and Leonard also examine Dorchester High
in the context of community partnerships and relationships.
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