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So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools
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Paperback. Num Pages: 263 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 387 x 387 x 581. Weight in Grams: 386.
This frank and courageous book explores the persistence of failure in today’s urban schools. At its heart is the argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighbourhoods.
Charles M. Payne argues that we have failed to account fully for the weakness of the social infrastructure and the often dysfunctional organisational environments of urban schools and school systems. The result is that liberals and conservatives alike have spent a great deal of time pursuing questions of limited practical value in the effort to ... Read more
This frank and courageous book explores the persistence of failure in today’s urban schools. At its heart is the argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighbourhoods.
Charles M. Payne argues that we have failed to account fully for the weakness of the social infrastructure and the often dysfunctional organisational environments of urban schools and school systems. The result is that liberals and conservatives alike have spent a great deal of time pursuing questions of limited practical value in the effort to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781891792885
SKU
V9781891792885
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About Unknown
Charles M. Payne is the Frank P. Hixon Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books, including I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (1995), which won awards from the Southern Regional Council, Choice, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, and ... Read more
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