WELCOME TO HEIGHTS HIGH
Subtitle: THE CRIPPLING POLITICS OF RESTRUCTURING (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: June 16, 2010
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780814206829
Subjects: General; Secondary; Educational Reform; Secondary Schools; Politics - Current Events; Administration; Case studies; Cleveland Heights; Educational change; High schools; Ohio; School improvement programs; Sociology
Description: "Welcome to Heights High documents a real-life attempt to put into practice the most promising school-improvement theories of the past decade. From 1988 to 1992 its journalist author was a "fly on the wall" at an uneasily integrated high school located in a progressive, middle-class suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. There Diana Tittle observed the progress of the Model School Project, an ambitious effort to reinvent the school that was prompted by the principal's unwillingness to accept as a given the persistent failure of his African-American students."--BOOK JACKET. "One of the earliest school restructuring attempts undertaken anywhere, the Model School Project enjoyed admirable goals, ample funding, and grassroots leadership by the high school faculty. Yet despite these advantages, it came to naught."--BOOK JACKET.