Reinterpreting Urban School Reform: Have Urban Schools Failed, or Has the Reform Movement Failed Urban Schools?

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Louis F. Miron, Edward P. St. John
SUNY Press, 9 avr. 2003 - 329 pages
Have urban schools failed, or has reform failed urban schools? This book examines existing urban school programs, ranging from desegregation to reading improvement, in light of available historical, empirical, and case study evidence. Miron and St. John and their contributors probe the underlying theoretical, normative, and political assumptions embedded in specific reform initiatives. They explore how reforms might be reconstructed to better address the underlying challenges and they demonstrate that reforms can be constructively critiqued throughout the stages of implementation, arguing that greater attention should be paid to ethnic and cultural traditions within urban educational settings.

Contributors include Leetta Allen-Haynes; Joseph Cadray; Choong-Geun Chung; Richard Fossey; Barry M. Franklin; David Gordon; Carol Anne Hossler; Siri Loescher; Kim Manoil; Genevieve Manset; Louis F. Mirón; Glenda Droogsma Musoba; Kathryn Nakagawa; Carolyn S. Ridenour; Ada B. Simmons; Edward P. St. John; Neil Theobald; Sandra Washburn; Kenneth K. Wong; and Kim Worthington.

 

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School Desegregation Is Over in the Inner Cities What Do We Do Now?
15
The Need for IssuesDriven School Funding Reform in Urban Schools
33
Government Initiated External Reforms
53
Federal Title I as a Reform Strategy in Urban Schools
55
Inclusive Education in High Stakes High Poverty Environments The Case of Students with Learning Disabilities in Indianas Urban Schools and the G...
77
Race Restructuring and Educational Reform The Mayoral Takeover of the Detroit Public Schools
95
Independently Adopted ResearchBased Reforms
127
ResearchBased Reading Reform The Impact of StateFunded Interventions on Educational Outcomes in Urban Elementary Schools
129
CommunityBased Reforms
207
Parental and Community Empowerment The Chicago Model
209
Joint Ventures Between Public Schools and City Government Implications for Community Development
229
Rediscovering the AfricanAmerican Tradition Restructuring in PostDesegregation Urban Schools
249
A CriticalEmpirical View
277
A CriticalEmpirical Perspective on Urban School Reform
279
Implications of the New Global Context for Urban Reform
299
Contributors
313

Comprehensive School Reform An Exploratory Study
155
Private Scholarships and School Choice Innovation or Class Reproduction?
177

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Louis F. Miron is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Social Construction of Urban Schooling: Situating the Crisis.

Edward P. St. John is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University at Bloomington. He is the coauthor (with Alison I. Griffith and Leetta Allen-Haynes) of Families in Schools: A Chorus of Voices in Restructuring.

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