Before hurricane Katrina ravaged the city in 2005, New Orleans had one of the worst performing public school districts in the nation. Katrina forced nearly a million people to leave their homes and caused almost 0 billion in damages. To an already failing public school system, the storm seemed to provide the final deathblow. But [...] Read more »
City Teachers: Teaching and School Reform in Historical Perspective Reviews
City Teachers: Teaching and School Reform in Historical Perspective A study of teachers’ work in urban schools in a period of intense school reform, as teachers and schools coped with an ever-larger and diverse student body. This text raises questions about the actual effect of school reform on teaching, curriculum, employment policy and school administration. [...] Read more »
Principals Matter: A Guide to School, Family, and Community Partnerships Reviews
Principals Matter: A Guide to School, Family, and Community Partnerships Examines the principal’s essential role in developing equitable and sustainable school-community partnerships, synthesizes research on partnerships and principal leadership, and addresses the inclusion of diverse family groups. List Price: $ 31.95 Price: Read more »
More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee
More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education. Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demonstrating that black activists engaged in multiple, overlapping, and often conflicting strategies to advance the race by gaining [...] Read more »
Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform (10th Edition)
Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform (10th Edition) An authoritative and timely examination of organizational behavior and how leaders can create effective school cultures. Well-established as a standard textbook in the preparation of effective and thoughtful school administrators, Organizational Behavior in Education continues its tradition of offering students of educational administration the [...] Read more »
School Reform From The Inside Out: Policy, Practice, And Performance Reviews
School Reform From The Inside Out: Policy, Practice, And Performance Giving test results to an incoherent, badly run school doesn’t automatically make it a better school. The work of turning a school around entails improving the knowledge and skills of teachers-changing their knowledge of content and how to teach it-and helping them to understand where [...] Read more »
Voices of Reform Rural Transformation at West Carter Middle School
West Carter Middle School serves fewer than 500 students in the small town of Olive Hill in the rural Appalachian region of Kentucky. Between 2000-2004, the school faced persistent low achievement in math and reading proficiency. A transformation was needed and in 2005 a new principal was hired bringing about an increase in collaboration among [...] Read more »
The Dark Side of School Reform: Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia
The Dark Side of School Reform: Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia The Dark Side of School Reform directly engages some of the more difficult aspects of working as an educator in a public school. This book investigates what it means to teach, lead, and live during times of ongoing and intense change [...] Read more »
Ravitch on Obama charter school accountability Race To The Top 1% public education reform vs
Diane Ravitch on Arne Duncan, 1% Obama charter public education school reform teacher bashing no child left behind race to the top. She did not say the SEGREGATION word but spoke of a two tier education system when charter schools exclude low performing kids poor kids and needy kids with disabilities. Billionaires blame teachers for [...] Read more »
The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, 1905-2005: Preparing Men and Women for Leadership in Scientific Educational Work
The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, 1905-2005: Preparing Men and Women for Leadership in Scientific Educational Work In 1905, as the University of Virginia inaugurated him as its first president, the revered southern educator Edwin Anderson Alderman proposed an education school, despite the thriving existence of normal teachers’ colleges, primarily female, [...] Read more »