Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/4cZEgW American School Reform What Works, What Fails, and Why By: Joseph P. McDonald; Cities and Schools Research Group Publisher: University of Chicago Press Print ISBN: 9780226124728, 022612472X eText ISBN: 9780226124865, 022612486X Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2014 Format: EPUB Available from $ 29.00 USD SKU 9780226124865 Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation’s largest cities, American School Reform offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluate the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge—launched in 1994—alongside other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area. They look deeply at what school reform really is, how it works, how it fails, and what differences it can make nonetheless. McDonald and his colleagues lay out several interrelated ideas in what they call a theory of action space. Frequently education policy gets so ambitious that implementing it becomes a near impossibility. Action space, however, is what takes shape when talented educators, leaders, and reformers guide the social capital of civic leaders and the financial capital of governments, foundations, corporations, and other backers toward true results. Exploring these extraordinary collaborations through their lifespans and their influences on future efforts, the authors provide political hope—that reform efforts can work, and that our schools can be made better. Additional ISBNs 9780226124698, 022612469X
