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Urban School Reform: Lessons from San Diego
Contributor(s): Hess, Frederick M. (Author)
ISBN: 1891792571     ISBN-13: 9781891792571
Publisher: Harvard Education PR
OUR PRICE:   $31.35  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Urban
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform
- Education | Administration - General
Dewey: 370
LCCN: 2004116554
Physical Information: 380 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Locality - San Diego, California
- Cultural Region - Southern California
- Geographic Orientation - California
 
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Publisher Description:
An indispensable book for administrators, policymakers, scholars, and practitioners, Urban School Reform presents a revealing portrait of reform efforts while identifying the full range of issues that education reformers will need to address in districts across the country in the years ahead.

Today's urban school reformers face a bewildering array of challenges. Urgent problems pertaining to governance, management, labor relations, classroom instruction, and numerous other areas face those who wish to reform and improve urban schools. Having undergone one of the nation's most comprehensive school reform efforts in recent years, San Diego has been a site of nationwide interest--one that is uncommonly well suited to learning about the challenges facing all reformers.

This timely book addresses the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform by looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego. In essays by an impressive gathering of scholars and practitioners from across the country, the book considers crucial dimensions of reform efforts in the San Diego schools, including performance, governance, the external environment, central leadership and management, district infrastructure, support services, and school-level instructional efforts. The result is a full-scale assessment of San Diego's reform efforts--a record of unmistakable relevance and value to other urban reform movements throughout the United States.

Contributor Bio(s): Hess, Frederick M.: - Frederick M. Hess is a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of Cage-Busting Leadership (Harvard Education Press, 2013).