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Tough love for schools : essays on competition, accountability, and excellence /
- Title
- Tough love for schools : essays on competition, accountability, and excellence / Frederick M. Hess.
- Author
- Hess, Frederick M.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2006.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 280 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-268) and index.
- Contents
- Seeking the mantle of "opportunity": presidential politics and the educational metaphor / with Patrick McGuinn -- Retooling K-12 giving -- Making sense of the "public" in public education -- What is a "public school"?: principles for a new century -- The case for being mean -- The political challenge of charter school regulation -- The work ahead -- Choice is not enough -- Inclusive ambiguity -- "Trust us," they explained: racial distrust and school reform -- School vouchers and suburbanites -- The voice of the people -- Tear down this wall -- A license to lead? -- Ready to lead? -- The predictable, but unpredictably personal, politics of teacher licensure -- Lessons from San Diego -- Science and nonscience: the limits of scientific research -- Technical difficulties -- On leaving no child behind / with Chester E. Finn Jr.
- ISBN
- 0844742112
- LCCN
- 2005030556
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library