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Examines an innovative approach to school district management that
has been adopted by a number of urban districts in recent years: a
portfolio management model, in which ""a central office oversees a
portfolio of schools offering diverse organisational and curricular
themes, including traditional public schools, private
organisations, and charter schools.
Featuring contributions from scholars in the field of charter
school research, this work offers a set of empirical studies that
explore the impact these schools have on teachers, students, and
educational practices.
In Challenging the One Best System, a team of leading education
scholars offers a rich comparative analysis of the set of urban
education governance reforms collectively known as the 'portfolio
management model.' They investigate the degree to which this
model-a system of schools operating under different types of
governance and with different degrees of autonomy-challenges the
standard structure of district governance famously characterized by
David Tyack as 'the one best system.' The authors examine the
design and enactment of the portfolio management model in three
major cities: New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Denver. They identify
the five interlocking mechanisms at the core of the model-planning
and oversight, choice, autonomy, human capital, and school
supports-and show how these are implemented differently in each
city. Using rich qualitative data from extensive interviews, the
authors trace the internal tensions and tradeoffs that characterize
these systems and highlight the influence of historical and
contextual factors as well. Most importantly, they question whether
the portfolio management model represents a fundamental
restructuring of education governance or more incremental change,
and whether it points in the direction of meaningful improvement in
school practices. Drawing on a rigorous, multimethod study,
Challenging the One Best System represents a significant
contribution to our understanding of system-level change in
education.
Examines an innovative approach to school district management that
has been adopted by a number of urban districts in recent years: a
portfolio management model, in which ""a central office oversees a
portfolio of schools offering diverse organisational and curricular
themes, including traditional public schools, private
organisations, and charter schools.
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