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Unlearning failure : can urban schools be transformed in the new millennium? / Dierdre G. Paul.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paul, Dierdre Glenn, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Urban--United States.
- Education, Urban.
- School failure.
- United States.
- School improvement programs--United States.
- School improvement programs.
- School failure--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 101 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Rather than simply recite problems, Unlearning Failure seeks to explore credible solutions to the urban education reform"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Demythologizing the American history of urban public schooling
- The emergence of race in the debate on urban school reform
- The infusion of big, federal cash throwing good money after bad
- Can failure be unlearned? : Can urban schools actually be transformed in the new millennium?
- Can competition serve as the jumpstart that failing urban public schools need to get their acts together?
- What is school choice? : Why is it the only viable alternative to failing urban schools in the new millennium?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Paul, Dierdre Glenn, 1964- author. Unlearning failure
- ISBN:
- 9781475835564
- 1475835566
- 9781475835571
- 1475835574
- OCLC:
- 1056691194
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