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Tilting at Windmills
Richard Lee Colvin
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Description for Tilting at Windmills
Paperback. Richard Lee Colvin s tenure as the San Diego superintendent resulted in groundbreaking reform. This book follows Colvin s lauded term in office and explores different ways San Diego has displayed a reform model for other school districts to emulate." Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 340.
Between 1998, when Alan Bersin became superintendent of the San Diego school system, and 2005, when he left that post, San Diego undertook a sustained and notably ambitious effort to reform its public school system. Bersin’s efforts were controversial from the start, both within San Diego and throughout the United States. Yet everyone agreed that the San Diego story was an immensely important one—and that it was a harbinger of reform efforts to come throughout the United States.
As an early and ambitious instance of the types of reforms that by now have been implemented in city schools across ... Read more
Between 1998, when Alan Bersin became superintendent of the San Diego school system, and 2005, when he left that post, San Diego undertook a sustained and notably ambitious effort to reform its public school system. Bersin’s efforts were controversial from the start, both within San Diego and throughout the United States. Yet everyone agreed that the San Diego story was an immensely important one—and that it was a harbinger of reform efforts to come throughout the United States.
As an early and ambitious instance of the types of reforms that by now have been implemented in city schools across ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard Educational Publishing Group United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781612505640
SKU
V9781612505640
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About Richard Lee Colvin
Richard Lee Colvin is the former executive director of Education Sector and a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
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