A heated debate is raging over our nation's public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose an innovative approach to solving the problems of our school system and find a middle ground between these extremes. "Reinventing Public Education" shows how contracting would radically change the way we operate our schools, while keeping them public and accessible to all, and making them better...
A heated debate is raging over our nation's public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to...
This text is the result of the first national-scale study of charter school accountability. The authors researched 150 schools and 60 authorizing agencies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Michigan.
This text is the result of the first national-scale study of charter school accountability. The authors researched 150 schools and 60 authorizing agen...
Mayoral takeovers of big-city public education systems are extreme measures that usually reflect an attempt to reverse the decline in quality in metropolitan educational systems. This text is a practical guide for mayors, civic leaders, school board members and involved citizens. It provides guidance on how to formulate a plan-of-action for education reform and how to deal with political opposition to change.
Mayoral takeovers of big-city public education systems are extreme measures that usually reflect an attempt to reverse the decline in quality in metro...
This text identifies roles for foundations and civic groups in defining strategies for big-city school reform and in ensuring that promised changes are implemented. According to the contributors, the current system of public education governance prevents creation of reform strategies that are bold enough to transform a troubled school system. It is also unable to sustain any consistent line of action long enough for it to work. The governance system also leaves critical issues to chance, such as the freedom of schools to select staff, make strategic use of funds and allocate time. The...
This text identifies roles for foundations and civic groups in defining strategies for big-city school reform and in ensuring that promised changes ar...
Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing--and stubborn--public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. "Strife and Progress" explains for a broad audience the "portfolio strategy" for providing urban education--its rationale, implementation, and results. Under the portfolio strategy, cities use anything that works, indifferent to whether schools are run by the public district or private entities. It combines traditional modes of schooling with newer methods, including chartering...
Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing--and stubborn--public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluat...
America s education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given schoolsomething that large educational bureaucracies are notoriously bad at. Paul T. Hill and Ashley E. Jochim offer here a solution that is brilliant for its simplicity and distinctly American sensibility: our public education system needs a constitution. Adapting the tried-and-true framework of our forefathers to the specific governance of education, they show...
America s education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to ...
