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The prize : who's in charge of America's schools?
- Title
- The prize : who's in charge of America's schools? / Dale Russakoff.
- Author
- Russakoff, Dale
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools -- and to solve the education crisis in every city in America -- it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved -- Newark's key education players, fiercely protective of their billion-dollar-per-annum system. It's a prize that, for generations, has enriched seemingly everyone, except Newark's students. Expert journalist Dale Russakoff delivers a story of high ideals and hubris, good intentions and greed, celebrity and street smarts -- as reformers face off against entrenched unions, skeptical parents, and bewildered students. The growth of charters forces the hand of Newark's superintendent Cami Anderson, who closes, consolidates, or redesigns more than a third of the city's schools -- a scenario on the horizon for many urban districts across America. Most moving are Russakoff's portraits from inside the district's schools, of home-grown principals and teachers, long stuck in a hopeless system -- and often the only real hope for the children of Newark. The Prize is a portrait of a titanic struggle over the future of education for the poorest kids, and a cautionary tale for those who care about the shape of America's schools. "--
- Alternative Title
- Who's in charge of America's schools?
- America's schools
- Subjects
- Educational change
- Education > Political aspects
- Public schools
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- Zuckerberg, Mark, 1984-
- Christie, Chris
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving
- Educational change > New Jersey > Newark
- Booker, Cory
- New Jersey > Newark
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
- Education > Political aspects > New Jersey > Newark
- Education and state > New Jersey
- Public schools > New Jersey > Newark
- EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The pact -- Seduction in Sun Valley -- The view from Avon Avenue -- Engaging the community -- The rise of the anti-Booker candidacy -- Searching for Newark's superman -- Hi, I'm Cami -- District school, charter school -- Transformational change meets the political sausage factory -- Alif rising -- The leading men move on -- One Newark, whose Newark? -- Conclusion: no excuses -- Author's note -- Appendix I: where the $200 million went -- Appendix II: Newark schools by the numbers.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-5601
- ISBN
- 9780547840055 (hardback)
- 0547840055 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2015017454
- OCLC
- 915774457
- Author
- Russakoff, Dale, author.
- Title
- The prize : who's in charge of America's schools? / Dale Russakoff.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-5601