Frogs into princes
Subtitle: writings on school reform
By: Larry Cuban.
Series: Multicultural education series; Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780807748596; 9780807748602
Subjects: Educational change -- United States; Education and state -- United States; Education, Urban -- United States; Public schools -- United States
Description: Collection of Larry Cuban's writings on urban school reform spanning his 45-year career. These selected studies and articles examine instructional, curricular, organizational, and governance reform in mostly poor and minority districts and schools. Includes an introduction and epilogue that frames the book, giving readers a sense of Cuban's career as teacher, administrator, and researcher and how those experiences were intimately tied to the writings presented here. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1962 : teaching at Glenville; title: 1969 : teacher and community. Necessary revisions in teacher education. A role problem : teacher or social worker? An assessment of the proposed training model; title: 1984 : transforming the frog into a prince : effective schools research, policy, and practice at the district level. District policies. Implementation strategies. Unanticipated consequences; title: 1989 : the "at-risk" label and the problem of urban school reform. Framing the problem. The case against the graded school. Past efforts to redesign schools. The difficulty of redesign. Incremental change; title: 1990 : reforming again, again, and again. Classrooms : teacher-centered instruction. Curriculum : the academic and the practical. Centralizing and decentralizing authority. Why do reforms appear again and again? A rational explanation for recurring reforms. Value conflicts : a political perspective. Institutional perspective. Concluding comments; title: 2001 : leadership for student learning : urban school leadership : different in kind and degree. Nationalizing education reform. Learning from the past. Reforming schools; title: the current agenda. Dispelling some urban myths. An initial agenda for action; title: 1993 : introduction to How teachers taught. Reforming schools and classrooms. Explanations for constancy and change; title: 2006 : reflections on two decades of computers in classrooms. Introduction. 1:1 computing. A final word; title: 2007 : hugging the middle : teaching in an era of testing and accountability. How have teachers taught? How are teachers teaching? A follow-up study of How teachers taught. Making sense of conflicting evidence; title: Reflections on urban school reform.