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

Author:   Jeannie Oakes (Los Angeles, California) ,  Karen Hunter Quartz (Solano Beach, California) ,  Steve Ryan (Louisville, Kentucky) ,  Martin Lipton (Los Angeles, California)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition:   New edition
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9780787962241


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   26 March 2002
Format:   Paperback
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"""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 process will see himself or herself in this book--as the brave risk taker, the naive visionary, the frightened frontline trooper, and the touched individual who can make a difference."" —Judy Cunningham, principal, South Lake Middle School, Irvine, California This book tells the stories of sixteen schools in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, and Vermont that sought to alter their structures and practices and become places fostering innovative ideas, caring people, principles of social justice, and democratic processes. Based on longitudinal, comparative case-study research, these accounts attest to the power of committing to public virtue and the struggle of educators to transform that commitment into changed school practice. The authors argue that better schools will come only when policy makers, educators, and citizens move beyond technical and bureaucratic reforms to engage in the same educative, socially just, caring, and participatory processes they want for schoolchildren. Those processes constitute betterment--both the means and the ends of school reform. Becoming Good American Schools is for administrators, policy makers, practitioners, and citizens who are prepared to blend inspiration and caution, idealism and skepticism in their own pursuit of good schools."

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Author:   Jeannie Oakes (Los Angeles, California) ,  Karen Hunter Quartz (Solano Beach, California) ,  Steve Ryan (Louisville, Kentucky) ,  Martin Lipton (Los Angeles, California)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9780787962241


ISBN 10:   0787962244
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   26 March 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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...is a provocative and challenging analysis... (Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, Volume 7, #3)


...is a provocative and challenging analysis... ( Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, Volume 7, #3)


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JEANNIE OAKES is professor of education at the University of California, Los Angeles. A prominent authority on school reform, she is author or coauthor of several books, including Keeping Track and Teaching to Change the World. KAREN HUNTER QUARTZ is a research scientist at the Center for Research in Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at the University of California, San Diego. She is coeditor of Creating New Educational Communities. STEVE RYAN is assistant professor of secondary education in the School of Education at the University of Louisville. MARTIN LIPTON is a research associate in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the coauthor of Making the Best of Schools and Teaching to Change the World.

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