School Progress in a Modern City
Author : Mt. Vernon (N.Y.). Board of Education
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Page : 243 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Education
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Author : Mt. Vernon (N.Y.). Board of Education
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Page : 243 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Education
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Author : New York (N.Y.). Institute for Public Service
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Mt. Vernon, N.Y. Co-operative Self-survey of the Schools
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Education
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Municipal government
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Author : United States. Office of Education
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Page : 818 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Education
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Author : Paul Thomas Hill
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Page : 62 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Education
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Most big-city school systems are in trouble, but some are on the road to improvement. This report describes how six communities (Atlanta, Cincinnati, Memphis, Miami, Pittsburgh, and San Diego) got started, defines what they still need to do, and suggests ways others might take advantage of their experience. To determine how improvement was begun and sustained, the project examined (1) typical precursor events (e.g., the hiring of a new superintendent or the settlement of lawsuits or labor disputes); (2) sources of initiative; (3) leadership strategies and decisionmaking processes; (4) roles of particular people and organizations, including the school board, superintendent, teachers' and other unions, business, civil organizations, and local political leaders; and (5) the importance and sources of new funds. The study's most important finding is that an urban school system can be improved only if the entire community unites on its behalf; the problems are too severe and intertwined--and entangled with broader community social and economic issues--to be solved by the educational bureaucracy alone.
Author : Paul Thomas Hill
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 0815724276
" Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing--and stubborn--public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the ""portfolio strategy"" for providing urban education--its rationale, implementation, and results. Under the portfolio strategy, cities use anything that works, indifferent to whether schools are run by the public district or private entities. It combines traditional modes of schooling with newer methods, including chartering and experimentation with schools making innovative use of people and technology. Urban districts try to make themselves magnets for new talent, recruiting educators and career switchers looking to make a difference for poor children. The portfolio strategy creates interesting new bedfellows: people who think that government should oversee public education align with those advocating choice, competition, and entrepreneurship. It cuts across political lines and engages city governments and civic assets (e.g., philanthropies, businesses, universities) much more deeply than earlier reform initiatives. New York and New Orleans were portfolio pioneers, but the idea has spread rapidly to cities as far-flung as Los Angeles, Denver, and Chicago. Results have been mixed overall but generally positive in places that implemented the strategy most aggressively. Reform leaders such as New York's Joel Klein have been overly optimistic, however, assuming that the strategy's merits would be so obvious that careful assessment would be unnecessary. Serious policy evaluation is still needed. "
Author : James McKeen Cattell
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Page : 752 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Education
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Author : United States. Bureau of Education
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Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Education
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Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Education
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