A race against time : the crisis in urban schooling /
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| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
2003.
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| Series: | Contemporary studies in social and policy issues in education
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Urban education reform : competing approaches / James G. Cibulka and William Lowe Boyd
- pt. 1. Systems reforms of urban school systems. Accountability at the Improv : brief sketches of school reform in Los Angeles / Charles Taylor Kerchner and David Menefee-Libey
- Philadelphia's children achieving initiative : the promise and challenge of systemic reform in an urban school district / Jolley Bruce Christman ... [et al.]
- Balancing autonomy and control in the New York City Public Schools : using the Double-ACE Model / Bruce S. Cooper and David C. Bloomfield
- pt. 2. Increasing mayoral influence over urban schools. Mayoral takeover : the different directions taken in different cities / Michael W. Kirst and Katrina E. Bulkley
- From Court Street to City Hall : governance change in the Boston public schools / Gary Yee
- Regime change : mayoral takeover of the Chicago public schools / Dorothy Shipps
- Implementation of an accountability agenda in high schools : integrated governance in the Chicago public schools / Kenneth Lynn ... [et al.]
- pt. 3. External intervention to improve urban school systems. State and federal intervention to improve Baltimore and Washington, D.C.'s public schools / James G. Cibulka
- The role of sanctions for improving persistently low-performing urban schools : early findings of policy effects on teacher motivation in the Maryland Accountability System / Heinrich Mintrop
- pt. 4. Conclusion : Urban education-reform strategies : comparative analysis and conclusions / James G. Cibulka and William Lowe Boyd.
