Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform

by Steve Ryan, Jeannie Oakes, Karen Hunter Quartz

Book Overview

"A convincing portrait of teachers actively engaged in educational reform...offering a hopeful yet realistic vision of revitalized democracy inspired by a passion for the public good. This book is an eloquent defense of civic virtue."
--Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities

"Rich, realistic, invigorating, and scary. Any middle school educator who has been part of an effort to reform the educational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787962244
• ISBN13: 9780787962241
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"