Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform write by B. Franklin. This book was released on 2010-03-01. Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community.
Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform
Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform write by B. Franklin. This book was released on 2010-03-01. Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community.
Community Organizing for Urban School Reform
Community Organizing for Urban School Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Community Organizing for Urban School Reform write by Dennis Shirley. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Community Organizing for Urban School Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Observers of all political persuasions agree that our urban schools are in a state of crisis. Yet most efforts at school reform treat schools as isolated institutions, disconnected from the communities in which they are embedded and insulated from the political realities which surround them. Community Organizing for Urban School Reform tells the story of a radically different approach to educational change. Using a case study approach, Dennis Shirley describes how working-class parents, public school teachers, clergy, social workers, business partners, and a host of other engaged citizens have worked to improve education in inner-city schools. Their combined efforts are linked through the community organizations of the Industrial Areas Foundation, which have developed a network of over seventy "Alliance Schools" in poor and working-class neighborhoods throughout Texas. This deeply democratic struggle for school reform contains important lessons for all of the nation's urban areas. It provides a striking point of contrast to orthodox models of change and places the political empowerment of low-income parents at the heart of genuine school improvement and civic renewal.
Spinning Wheels
Spinning Wheels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinning Wheels write by Frederick M. Hess. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Spinning Wheels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Almost everyone agrees that America's urban schools are a mess. But while this agreement has fostered widespread support for aggressive reform, Frederick Hess argues that much of what ails urban education is actually the result of continuous or fragmentary reform. Hess explains that political incentives drive school superintendents to promote reforms--to demonstrate that they are "making a difference." Superintendents have to do this quickly, both because their tenure is usually three years or less and because urban communities are anxious to see educational improvement. However, the nature of urban school districts makes it very difficult to demonstrate concrete short-term improvement. The result is what he terms "policy churn," which distracts teachers and principals from efforts to refine classroom teaching while seldom resulting in successful long-term changes. Hess argues that policymakers have misallocated resources by pursuing the "right" structure or the "best" pedagogy while paying insufficient attention to the more mundane--and more important--questions of how to implement, refine, and sustain a particular approach in their particular district. Hess explains that previous research on high-performing schools suggests that the best schools are characterized by focus and by an ability to develop expertise in specific approaches to teaching and learning. To help educators and policymakers adopt and nurture a focused agenda, he recommends institutional changes that increase the effectiveness of performance outcomes and reduce the incentives to emphasize symbolic reform.
Including Families and Communities in Urban Education
Including Families and Communities in Urban Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Including Families and Communities in Urban Education write by Catherine Hands. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Including Families and Communities in Urban Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The work of school, family and community partnerships is complex and messy and demands a thoughtful and deep investigation. Currently, parent and community involvement does not draw on school reform and educational change literature and conversely the school change literature often ignores the crucial role that communities play in educational reform. This edited volume focuses on structural considerations regarding education and the school communities, school-level and family culture, and the interrelationships between the agency and actions of school personnel, family members, community citizens and students. This book extends the dialogue on school reform by looking at parent and community engagement initiatives as part of the school reform literature. The contributors illustrate the negative impact on students and their education when assumptions made by school personnel regarding the organization of education, the nature of families, and the contributions they should make to their children’s education are not challenged.
