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School Leadership in Times of Urban Reform

Book by Marilyn Bizar, Rebecca Barr; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001

Subjects:

Education, Urban--Illinois--Chicago--Case Studies, Educational Leadership--Illinois--Chicago--Case Studies, School Improvement Programs--Illinois--Chicago--Case Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Reform of Urban Schools Overview...are concerned about urban schools -- those...differences between urban and nonurban schools...the needs of local schools, inadequate resources...students dropping out of school. These features translate...
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Politics, Language, and Culture: A Critical Look at Urban School Reform

Book by Joseph W. Check; Praeger, 2002

Subjects:

Education, Urban--Political Aspects--United States--Case Studies, Educational Change--United States--Case Studies, Multicultural Education--United States--Case Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...League of Professional Schools). 14 All of these...all have a presence in urban areas, and all are considered part of school reform. At the federal level, reform in urban areas is supported by...quantity of schoolwide reform efforts that enable...for equity-driven reforms and a compensatory federal...
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The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education

Book by Jeffrey R. Henig, Richard C. Hula, Marion Orr, Desiree S. Pedescleaux; Princeton University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Children Of Minorities--Education--United States, Education, Urban--Political Aspects--United States, Education, Urban--Social Aspects--United States, Educational Change--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...restructured public schools manage to close the...evidence that public schools that try to do too much...in an analysis of school reform in fifty-seven urban schools districts, Hess found...only is a great deal of reform proposed, but about...reportedly enacted. Reforms are proposed at a rapid...
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Corridor Cultures: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban High School

Book by Maryann Dickar; New York University Press, 2008

Subjects:

Classroom Management--United States, Educational Psychology, High School Students--United States, Urban Schools--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Chronicles of _____ High School: 1937 1987 . Edited...2003). _____ High School. New York: City of...Checks Begun at 5 NYC Schools. USA Today . 3A. March...within the Context of School Reform. Urban Education 34(2...
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Southern Cities, Southern Schools: Public Education in the Urban South

Book by David N. Plank, Rick Ginsberg; Greenwood Press, 1990

Subjects:

Education, Urban--Southern States--History, Politics And Education--Southern States, Public Schools--Southern States--Case Studies, Race Relations In School Management--Southern States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...8 The structural reform of the New Orleans public schools was accomplished...analyses of progressive school reform in urban areas of the South...Atlanta. 9 The school reform process in...role in New Orleans school reform. The push...New Orleans public schools was minimal in the...

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Journal Articles on: school reform and urban

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School Social Workers and Urban Education Reform with African American Children and Youth: Realities, Advocacy, and Strategies for Change

Journal article by Martell Teasley; School Community Journal, Vol. 14, 2004

Subjects:

African Americans, Children & youth, Education reform, Schools, Social work, Social workers, Urban areas

Collections: Education, Entire Library

School Social Workers and Urban Education Reform with African...landscape of schools; as such...education reform in urban communities...rubric of school choice measures...as charter schools, school...relationships in urban communities...can train school personnel...further a schools ability to...educational reform and the need...
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The Plight of a Good Idea: Prenatal Care, Health Services, and Nutrition Programs Could Support the Cause of Urban School Reform. So Why Is the Obama Promise Neighborhoods Project under Fire?

Journal article by Thomas Toch; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 92, 2010

Subjects:

Educational reform--Management, Medical care--Educational aspects, Medical care--United States, Nutrition--Educational aspects, Obama, Barack--Education policy, President of the United States--Education policy, Urban schools--Management

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the Cause of Urban School Reform. So Why Is...steps to help schools in some 20...reflected in the reform manifesto...reformist school superintendents...accountability for schools and teachers, governance reforms for failing...shouldnt take a school-reform-only approach...combine school reforms with greater supports for urban students...
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Catholic Schools, Urban Neighborhoods, and Education Reform

Journal article by Margaret F. Brinig, Nicole Stelle Garnett; Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 85, 2010

Subjects:

Catholic schools--Facility closures, Education and state--Evaluation, Education policy--Evaluation, Educational reform--Evaluation, Land use planning--Laws, regulations and rules, Land use--Laws, regulations and rules, Land use--Planning

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...and education reform. I. THE DISAPPEARING URBAN PARISH SCHOOL This Part situates the Chicago schools that we study...explain what urban Catholic schools...especially large urban ones), have...within-a-school" reforms, which feature...autonomous public schools operating in...
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How to Reform a Reform Coalition: Outreach, Agenda Expansion, and Brokerage in Urban School Reform

Journal article by Chris Ansell, Sarah Reckhow, Andrew Kelly; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 37, 2009

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Coalition (Social sciences)--Laws, regulations and rules, Coalitions (Social sciences)--Laws, regulations and rules, Education and state--Interpretation and construction, Education policy--Interpretation and construction, Educational reform--Planning, School districts--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...creation of small schools, but these...about their school reform priorities...top three reform strategy priorities...18 possible reforms. (13) Table...for Oakland reforms without undermining...focus that the reform movement has...autonomous school reform. Conclusion...arena--urban education...Institute for School Reform, Brown University...Reforming Urban Schools. Lawrence...
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A Political Explanation of Policy Selection: The Case of Urban School Reform

Journal article by Frederick M. Hess; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 27, 1999

Subjects:

Education and state--Evaluation, Public policy (Canon law)--Evaluation, Public schools--Public opinion, Urban schools--Political aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...energetically than scheduling reforms and propose and enact...numbers, for one of two reforms thought to be equally...by a wide margin, a reform reported to be somewhat...policymakers select some reforms precisely because they...public, implying that school critics who argue that public schools are inattentive and...the critics desire. Urban superintendents and...

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Magazine Articles on: school reform and urban

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What School Boards Can Do: Reform Governance for Urban Schools

Magazine article by Anthony P. Cavanna; School Administrator, Vol. 64, April 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, What School Boards Can Do: Reform Governance for Urban Schools (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Education, Entire Library

What School Boards Can Do: Reform Governance for Urban Schools. by Anthony P. Cavanna...31.75 softcover In What School Boards Can Do, Don McAdams...this book is intended for urban leaders and school boards, its content can...
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Bringing School Reform to Scale: Five Award-Winning Urban Districts

Magazine article by Larry L. Nyland; School Administrator, Vol. 68, February 2011

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Bringing School Reform to Scale: Five Award-Winning Urban Districts (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Bringing School Reform to Scale: Five Award-Winning Urban Districts. by Larry...districts. Each of these school districts has been named...given each year to one urban district that has demonstrated...with district leaders, school leaders and teacher leaders...emerging research on schools and districts that beat...
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Creating Sustainable Reform: Five Urban Districts Implement Models for Continuous Improvement and Lasting Change

Magazine article by Christopher R. Brown, David Spangler; School Administrator, Vol. 63, September 2006

Subjects:

Educational reform--Forecasts and trends, School districts--Management, School superintendents--Management

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Creating Sustainable Reform: Five Urban Districts Implement...educational excellence. When reforms fail, it is often because...at the beginning of a reform initiative building...K-8 level in five urban school systems: Los...local districts. The school district is seeing evidence...percent of elementary schools scoring an API of 600...
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Why Urban School Reform Doesn't Deliver

Magazine article by Frederick M. Hess; School Administrator, Vol. 57, January 2000

Subjects:

Educational accountability--Analysis, School board-superintendent relationships--Analysis, School superintendents--Management, Urban schools--Management

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...superintendent and his or her reform agenda are immediately...demonstrates that the typical urban district launched at least 12 large-scale reforms between 1992 and 1995--thats a new reform every three months...the sense of crisis in urban schooling, superintendents...quickly courted by eager school boards in other jurisdictions...enduring difference in the schools. The urban superintendents...
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Ramping Up Schoolwide Reform: Three Urban Districts Experience Gains Resulting from America's Choice Design

Magazine article by Thomas Toch; School Administrator, Vol. 62, January 2005

Subjects:

Educational reform--Management, Nonprofit organizations--Services, Public schools--Educational aspects, School districts--Demographic aspects, School districts--Educational aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Up Schoolwide Reform: Three Urban Districts Experience...Toch Some public schools do a great job...challenge of school reform today...work with the school-improvement...requires every school it works with...teachers in their schools. With teacher turnover high in urban schools, the...comprehensive reform. Simmons calls...

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Newspaper Articles on: school reform and urban

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School Reform at Center Stage; D.C. Advocates Push Options for Greater Student Opportunities

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 7, 2009

Subjects:

Charter schools--Political aspects, Educational reform--Political aspects, Federal aid to education--Political aspects, Government aid to education--Political aspects, Scholarships (Financial aid)--Political aspects, Scholarships--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

School Reform at Center Stage...advocates for school reform in all three...traditional public schools, public charter...Friends of Choice in Urban Schools, were among...Public Education Reform Project. Ms. Levy...C. schools and school reform. Sen. Susan...public charter schools, Mr. Cane highlighted...
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Time to Cut the Strings? Government School Reforms That Aim to Give More Power to Teachers and Parents Have Met with a Lukewarm Response in the North East. Education Correspondent NICOLA WEATHERALL Examines the Issue

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), September 21, 2011

Subjects:

Education, Educational reform, Teachers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Government School Reforms That Aim to Give More...East and, for some schools, there are surplus...close-knit, with the school being the centre of...happy with their local school, and schools have strong links with...have as many built-up urban areas as some other...
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The Battle to Defame Michelle Rhee; Critics' Charges Are Desperate Attempt to Derail School Reform across the Country

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), May 25, 2011

Subjects:

Educational reform, Rhee, Michelle

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Granted, school reform is not a sporting...to smear former schools Chancellor Michelle...through dramatic school reforms. Almost overnight...D.C. Public School system in both...the Great City Schools. No other city...the comparison of urban districts could...from cheating : School-reform critic Diane Ravitch...
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D.C. Mayor Gray Embraces School Reforms He Attacked; There's Hope That Smart Politics May Save Critical Changes

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), March 17, 2011

Subjects:

Educational reform, Gray, Vincent C., Mayors, Rhee, Michelle

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...remain in the D.C. school system. He also has...turnaround at Sousa Middle School, a school located in his own Ward...discredit her and derail her reforms. Michael Casserly...Council of the Great City Schools, is a true expert on...being made in other urban districts. None of...
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Reform the Schools, Reduce Violence

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 15, 2007

Subjects:

School violence

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in our public schools. Now 81 percent of the nations schools experienced one...the most recent school year reported...six percent of urban school students report gangs in their schools. In 2004-2005...completely. School reform supporters do...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: school reform and urban

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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...tended to slow the pace of reform and caused Roosevelt to attempt...The institution of draft reform, the continued withdrawal...to favor an end to the many reforms of the 1960s. He was accused...delays in the implementation of school integration. Such actions...
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Minnesota , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in 1994; Jesse Ventura of the Reform party, a former professional wrestler...Northfield; and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, affiliated with the...state has become progressively more urban. In 1970 the urban population was two thirds of the...
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Chile

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Fuego. Chile is predominantly urban, with more than a third of...country experienced governmental reform and material progress. The...instituted a program of labor reforms during his tenure from 1920...who advocated complete social reform. The struggle between radicals...massive protests over secondary school funding, some of which resulted...
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Russia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...assassinated in 1881. Among his reforms, the liberation (1861) of...generally advocated moderate reform. The program made slow but...broad plan for liberal economic reforms was enacted. The alliance...theater in Oct., 2002, and a school in Beslan, North Ossetia...culminated in the seizure of a school in Beslan, North Ossetia...
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Local Government

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...government bodies (e.g., school boards in the United...usually include public schools, local highways, municipal...hastening government reform. It stresses clear lines...authority in rural than in urban areas, where incorporated...power. In both rural and urban areas the local governments...Local Government in an Urban Society (1986); N...

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