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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: 1962 : teaching at Glenville; value: 1969 : teacher and community. Necessary revisions in teacher education. A role problem : teacher or social worker? An assessment of the proposed training model; value: 1984 : transforming the frog into a prince : effective schools research, policy, and practice at the district level. District policies. Implementation strategies. Unanticipated consequences; value: 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; value: 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; value: 2001 : leadership for student learning : urban school leadership : different in kind and degree. Nationalizing education reform. Learning from the past. Reforming schools; value: the current agenda. Dispelling some urban myths. An initial agenda for action; value: 1993 : introduction to How teachers taught. Reforming schools and classrooms. Explanations for constancy and change; value: 2006 : reflections on two decades of computers in classrooms. Introduction. 1:1 computing. A final word; value: 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; value: Reflections on urban school reform.