Fixing urban schools /

Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one. Cleveland, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., are struggling to recreate their failed school systems, and many more cities are likely to follow. City leaders...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Paul T. (Paul Thomas), 1943-
Other Authors: Celio, Mary Beth
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©1998.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/jj.12406170
Table of Contents:
  • Struggling to improve city schools
  • How different reform proposals are supposed to work
  • Agreements and disagreements on how reforms work
  • Ideological hot buttons
  • Creating reforms that can work
  • Brookings program plans.