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The Transformation of Great American School Districts - How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education (Paperback)
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The Transformation of Great American School Districts - How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education (Paperback)
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In The Transformation of Great American School Districts, William
Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth argue that urban
education reform can best be understood as a long process of
institutional change, rather than as a series of failed projects.
They examine the core assumptions that underlay the Progressive Era
model of public education-apolitical governance, local control,
professional hierarchy, and the logic of confidence-and show that
recent developments in school governance have challenged virtually
all of these assumptions. Drawing on case studies of five urban
districts-Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, and
Los Angeles-they trace the rise of new ideas and trends that are
reshaping the institution of public education: mayoral control,
shifting civic coalitions, federal and state involvement,
standards-based accountability, and the role of educational
outsiders in district administration. Although each city has
evolved along a different path, the editors argue that a set of new
underlying ideas is being auditioned in the transition to a new
institutional model and describe the process by which institutional
change occurs.
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