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A race against time : the crisis in urban schooling

Author: James G Cibulka; William Lowe Boyd
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Series: Contemporary studies in social and policy issues in education
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James G Cibulka; William Lowe Boyd
ISBN: 1567506402 9781567506402
OCLC Number: 50205634
Description: xviii, 247 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction : Urban education reform : competing approaches / James G. Cibulka and William Lowe Boyd -- pt. 1. Systems reforms of urban school systems. Accountability at the Improv : brief sketches of school reform in Los Angeles / Charles Taylor Kerchner and David Menefee-Libey -- Philadelphia's children achieving initiative : the promise and challenge of systemic reform in an urban school district / Jolley Bruce Christman ... [et al.] -- Balancing autonomy and control in the New York City Public Schools : using the Double-ACE Model / Bruce S. Cooper and David C. Bloomfield -- pt. 2. Increasing mayoral influence over urban schools. Mayoral takeover : the different directions taken in different cities / Michael W. Kirst and Katrina E. Bulkley -- From Court Street to City Hall : governance change in the Boston public schools / Gary Yee -- Regime change : mayoral takeover of the Chicago public schools / Dorothy Shipps -- Implementation of an accountability agenda in high schools : integrated governance in the Chicago public schools / Kenneth Lynn ... [et al.] pt. 3. External intervention to improve urban school systems. State and federal intervention to improve Baltimore and Washington, D.C.'s public schools / James G. Cibulka -- The role of sanctions for improving persistently low-performing urban schools : early findings of policy effects on teacher motivation in the Maryland Accountability System / Heinrich Mintrop -- pt. 4. Conclusion : Urban education-reform strategies : comparative analysis and conclusions / James G. Cibulka and William Lowe Boyd.
Series Title: Contemporary studies in social and policy issues in education
Responsibility: edited by James G. Cibulka and William Lowe Boyd.

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