The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 u...
ISBN(s)
189179292X, 9781891792922
