The transformation of great American school districts
Subtitle: how big cities are reshaping public education
By: edited by William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, Mark Blyth.
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781891792922; 9781891792939
Subjects: Educational change -- United States; Public schools -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: institutional change in urban school districts / William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, Mark Blyth; title: Comparing the progressive model and contemporary formative ideas and trends / Charles Taylor Kerchner, David Menefee-Libey, Laura Steen Mulfinger; title: Radical privatization in Philadelphia: the role of school district leaders as policy entrepreneurs / William Lowe Boyd, Jolley Bruce Christman, Elizabeth Useem; title: Neo-Progressivism as school reform in Chicago: big change, little difference? / Dorothy Shipps; title: "Plus ðCa Change..." Mayoral control in New York City / Norm Fruchter; title: Mayoral takeover in the District of Columbia: the need for a shake-up / Jane Hannaway, Michael D. Usdam; title: The persistence of ideas in Los Angeles public school reform / David Menefee-Libey, Charles Taylor Kerchner, Laura Steen Mulfinger; title: Studying education systems with the tools of institutional theory / Mark Blyth.