School Reform in Chicago: Lessons in Policy and Practice - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1891792180 ISBN 13 : 9781891792182

Editeur : Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2004

Synopsis

School Reform in Chicago shares the lessons learned from the city of Chicago's school reform efforts over the past two decades, the most ambitious in history, becoming a huge laboratory for innovations in areas such as school governance, leadership, accountability, and community involvement.

In 1987, the U.S. Secretary of Education embarrassed the city of Chicago by calling its public schools the worst in the nation. Chicagoans may have been tempted to brush off that observation as heavy-handed Washington bluster. But, the secretary was only repeating what civic leaders, educators, parents, and students there already knew: the city's schools were failing, and they desperately needed fresh resources, organization, ideas, and purpose.

Over the next decade, Chicago underwent the most ambitious school reform effort in history, becoming a huge laboratory for school reform innovations in areas such as governance, leadership, accountability, and community involvement. Along the way, there were many notable successes, spectacular flops, and lessons learned.

In highlighting the key issues and dynamics of Chicago's reforms, this book identifies challenges and solutions that are applicable to other school systems. For example:

• Former accountability czar Philip J. Hansen discusses controversial school accountability and intervention initiatives.
• Ken Rolling, former head of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, reflects on how privately funded school reform efforts can succeed if they overcome some chronic problems.
• Andrew G. Wade and Madeline Talbott show how parent and community involvement can support school improvement.

Other article highlights include the struggle to improve instruction, teacher professional development, ending social promotion, the view from inside the city bureaucracy, and the importance of rebuilding physical spaces to accommodate new instructional goals.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alexander Russo is an independent writer and consultant whose writing on education has appeared in the Washington Monthly, Slate.com, Education Next, The Harvard Education Letter, and numerous other publications. Russo is a contributing editor for Catalyst magazine, based in Chicago, and an associate editor for The Title 1 Report, based in Washington, D.C.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1891792180
• ISBN 13: 9781891792182
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
• Éditeur: Russo Alexander
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible