Charting Chicago School Reform: Democratic Localism as a Lever for Change

ISBN-13: 9780367314927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 403 str.

Anthony Bryk;Penny Bender Sebring;David Kerbow

Opis

In 1989, Chicago began an experiment with radical decentralization of power and authority. This book tells the story of what happened to Chicago's elementary schools in the first four years of this reform. Implicit in this reform is the theory that expanded local democratic participation would stimulate organizational change within schools, which i

Spis treści

Prologue -- Framing Our Analysis: Locating Chicago School Reform Within an Institutional Change Perspective -- Politics as a Lever for Organizational Change -- Catalyzing Basic Organizational Change at the Building Level -- Instructional Change -- Testing the Basic Logic of the Chicago School Reform Act -- A Closer Look at Actively Restructuring Schools -- Major Lessons from the Initiating Phase of Chicago School Reform

O autorze

Anthony Bryk, David Kerbow, Sharon Rollow, John Easton