Revolution at the margins : the impact of competition on urban school systems /
"Urban school systems have a difficult mandate: to educate large numbers of disadvantaged children under the heavy hand of often dysfunctional managerial, accountability, and regulatory systems." "Over the past decade they have also been challenged - in some cases threatened - by comp...
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press
©2002.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctvc2rnj4 |
Table of Contents:
- The market and the urban school system
- Urban systems as competitors
- Milwaukee, 1989-95 : prologue
- Milwaukee, 1995-99 : hints of the pickax
- Cleveland, 1995-99 : muffled by the din
- Edgewood, 1998-2000 : an outside invasion
- A political market
- You say you want a revolution?