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New hope for urban high schools : cultural reform, moral leadership, and community partnership / Lisa Gonsalves and John Leonard ; foreword by Lee Teitel.
Van Pelt Library LC5133.B6 G66 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gonsalves, Lisa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban high schools--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.
- Urban high schools.
- Education, Urban--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.
- Education, Urban.
- School improvement programs--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.
- School improvement programs.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
- Summary:
- This book on high school reform addresses why the U.S. dropout rate is still too high despite many reform efforts, why far too many graduates are not prepared for college, and why our high school students still fall short on international competitions.
- Contents:
- Introduction : reforming our most troubled urban high schools
- Demographics, discrimination, and decline : the destruction of Dorchester High 1945 to 1970
- The fragmentation of culture and community : the long, slow decline of Dorchester High School 1969 to 1982
- Help is on the way : the community comes to Dorchester High School 1982 to 1989
- Reports from the circus : the community goes after the school committee 1982 to 1991
- Back to square one at Dorchester High School 1989 to 1995
- The community returns to Dorchester High School 1996 to 1999
- Betrayals and betrayals : the last years of Dorchester High School : 1999 to 2003
- Learning how to educate together : the hope and promise of small high schools 2003 to 2006
- A conceptual framework for enacting cultural reform in struggling urban high schools : re-engaging the community
- School culture and school partnerships
- Consider the challenges of urban adolescents
- The ecological systems model and the development of the school leader
- School values and moral authority.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275991652
- 9780275991654
- OCLC:
- 76828795
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