This in-depth study of grassroots politics - micropolitics' - in schools, which includes examples from the UK and the USA, explores how teachers, administrators and their students use political power to protect their interests and to bring about change in the status quo.
This in-depth study of grassroots politics - micropolitics' - in schools, which includes examples from the UK and the USA, explores how teachers, admi...
We are in a race against time to save urban children from educational failure and to reform urban school systems before people give up on them. The authors examine the effectiveness of three reform approaches: systems reform, mayoral influence, and external state or federal intervention, using case studies from seven large cities, as well as state and national trends.
The social and economic transformation of large American cities after World War II laid the seeds for the crisis in urban education that has festered and grown since the 1950s. Decades of appalling test scores and failure...
We are in a race against time to save urban children from educational failure and to reform urban school systems before people give up on them. The...
