Understanding and improving urban secondary schools : new perspectives / guest editors, Karen Seashore Louis and Muhammad Khalifa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Louis, Karen Seashore, editor.

Khalifa, Muhammad, editor.

Series:

Journal of educational administration, 0957-8234 ; volume 56, number 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban schools.

Education, Secondary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, West Yorkshire : Emerald Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

The papers included in this special issue grew out of a small invitational conference on urban secondary schools, held in May 2017 at the University of Minnesota which broadly addressed perspectives on a single question: What are the social contexts within and out of schools that affect achievement and humanization of urban secondary students? The authors' contributions reflect a common conviction that it is time to move schools (and school leadership) away from a singular focus on improving instruction in order to increase tested student achievement. While instruction and cognitive outcomes and skills are important, the participants concluded that we need a broader perspective that recognizes the role of all stakeholders in shaping the forces within and outside schools that affect student development and learning.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 3, 2018).

ISBN:

1-78973-068-6