Powerful reforms with shallow roots : improving America's urban schools /

Powerful reforms with shallow roots : improving America's urban schools / Larry Cuban and Michael Usdan, editors ; foreword by Elizabeth L. Hale.

This authoritative and eye-opening volume examines governance changes in six cities during the 1990s, where either mayoral control of schools has occurred or where noneducators have been appointed to lead school districts. Featuring up-close, in-depth case studies of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago...

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Other Authors: Cuban, Larry (Editor), Usdan, Michael D. (Editor), Hale, Elizabeth (Contributor), Boyd, William Lowe, 1935- (Contributor), Christman, Jolley Bruce (Contributor), Cibulka, James G. (Contributor), McCloud, Barbara (Contributor), Shipps, Dorothy (Contributor), Yee, Gary (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Education, Urban > United States > Case studies.
Educational change > United States > Case studies.

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Call Number: LC5131 .P69 2003
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