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Becoming good American schools : the struggle for civic virtue in education reform

Title
Becoming good American schools : the struggle for civic virtue in education reform / Jeannie Oakes [and others].
Publication
San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, ©2000.

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Additional Authors
Oakes, Jeannie.
Description
xxxiii, 385 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book brings to life an ambitious American education reform agenda transforming schools into places that foster meaningful engagement with ideas, caring people, principles of social justice, and democratic processes. It draws on longitudinal, comparative case-study research to tell the stories of sixteen schools in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, and Vermont that sought to alter their deep structures and daily practices. Their stories illuminate contradictions deeply rooted in American culture - incongruities that not only threatened their efforts, but also revealed the limits of technical and rational approaches to 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."--Jacket.
Series Statement
The Jossey-Bass education series
Uniform Title
Jossey-Bass education series
Subject
  • School improvement programs > United States
  • Educational change > United States
  • Public schools > United States
  • Educational change
  • Public schools
  • School improvement programs
  • Qualitätsmanagement
  • Schoolcultuur
  • Burgerschap
  • Schule
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The struggle to become good schools -- Cultural contradictions -- Becoming educative -- Becoming socially just -- Becoming caring -- Becoming participatory -- Struggling to scale up -- Struggling in the reform mill -- A passion for the public good -- Appendix : Studying the technical, normative, and political dimensions of school reform.
ISBN
  • 0787940232
  • 9780787940232
LCCN
99050416
OCLC
  • ocm42428853
  • 42428853
  • SCSB-8904687
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library