American School Reform: What Works, What Fails, and Why

by Joseph P. McDonald

Book Overview

Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's largest cities, American School Reform offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluate the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge--launched in 1994--alongside other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022612472X
• ISBN13: 9780226124728
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"