The futures of school reform
By: edited by Jal Mehta, Robert B. Schwartz, and Frederick M. Hess
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781612504728; 9781612504711
Subjects: Educational change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The futures of school reform : if we keep doing what we're doing, we're never going to get there / Jal Mehta, Robert B. Schwartz, and Frederick M. Hess; title: Learning from abroad : rapid improvement is possible, even in a system like ours / Ben Levin, Robert B. Schwartz, and Adam Gamoran; title: Building on practical knowledge : the key to a stronger profession is learning from the field / Jal Mehta, Louis M. Gomez, and Anthony S. Bryk; title: Moving to a mixed model : without an appropriate role for the market, the education sector will stagnate / Terry M. Moe and Paul T. Hill; title: "Unbundling" schools and schooling : let's think more flexibly about how to structure institutions and jobs / Frederick M. Hess and Olivia Meeks; title: Addressing the disadvantages of poverty : why ignore the most important challenge of the post-standards era? / Jeffrey Henig, Helen Janc Malone, and Paul Reville; title: Redefining education : the future of learning is not the future of schooling / Elizabeth A. City, Richard F. Elmore, and Doug Lynch; title: The courage to achieve our ambitions : five pathways for the future / Jal Mehta; title: Appendix : the futures of school reform participants.