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Education reform in New York City : ambitious change in the nation's most complex school system

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Education reform in New York City : ambitious change in the nation's most complex school system / edited by Jennifer A. O'Day, Catherine S. Bitter, and Louis M. Gomez.
Publication
Cambridge : Harvard Education Press, 2011.

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  • O'Day, Jennifer A., 1944-
  • Bitter, Catherine S.
  • Gomez, Louis M.
Description
iv, 364 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
Educational change > New York
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-335) and index.
Contents
Introduction to the volume and Children First / Jennifer A. O'Day, Catherine S. Bitter, and Joan E. Talbert -- Leadership and governance in New York City school reform / Paul T. Hill -- Parent and community engagement in New York City and the sustainability challenge for urban education reform / Jeffrey Henig, Eva Gold, Marion Orr, Megan Silander, and Elaine Simon -- Financing K-12 education in the Bloomberg years, 2002-2008 / Leanna Stiefel and Amy Ellen Schwartz -- Managing for results at the New York City Department of Education / Stacey Childress, Monica Higgins, Ann Ishimaru, and Sola Takahashi -- Improving instruction in New York City : an evolving approach / Jennifer O'Day and Catherine S. Bitter -- Collaborative inquiry to expand student success in New York City schools / Joan E. Talbert -- Recruiting, evaluating, and retaining teachers : the Children First strategy to improve New York City's teachers / Margaret Goertz, Susanna Loeb, and Jim Wyckoff -- Changing contexts and the challenge of high school reform in New York City / Leslie Santee Siskin -- School choice and competition in the New York City schools / Sean P. Corcoran and Henry M. Levin -- How students' views predict graduation outcomes and reveal instructional disparities under Children First reforms / Ronald F. Ferguson -- Children First and student outcomes : 2003-2010 / James J. Kemple -- Reflections on Children First / Jennifer A. O'Day and Catherine S. Bitter.
ISBN
  • 193474283X
  • 9781934742839
  • 1934742848
  • 9781934742846
OCLC
  • ocn700145876
  • 700145876
  • SCSB-13566516
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries