Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools...and Winning!
Subtitle: Lessons from Houston
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780807738856
Subjects: Central government policies; Schools; Urban communities; General; Education In Urban Areas; Education / Teaching; Education; Texas; History; Case studies; Education, Urban; Educational change; Houston
First sentence: The reform of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) began with the board elections of 1989.
Description: "Don McAdams, one of a small group of activists elected to the Houston Independent School District Board of Education in 1989, provides a fast moving first-person account of successful reform in the nation's seventh largest school district. With tact and wisdom, the author shows that school reform is seldom about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Rather, it is mostly about power, status, and money. No one interested in politics, governance, and management of urban school districts can afford to miss Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools ... and Winning!"--Jacket.