Strife and progress : portfolio strategies for managing urban schools / Paul T. Hill, Christine Campbell, and Betheny Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Paul T. (Paul Thomas), 1943-

Contributor:

Campbell, Christine.

Gross, Betheny.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Urban--Social aspects--United States.

Education, Urban.

Portfolios in education.

School management and organization--United States.

School management and organization.

Urban schools--United States--Administration.

Urban schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing-and stubborn-public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the ""portfolio strategy"" for providing urban education-its rationale, implementation, and results. Under the portfolio strategy, cities use anything that works, indifferent to whether schools are run by the public district or private entities. It combines traditional modes of schooling with newer methods, including charterin

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Portfolio Strategy in Practice; How the Portfolio Strategy Gets Adopted: A Tale of Two Cities; Conflict in Portfolio Districts; Judging the Results of the Portfolio Strategy; Does the Portfolio Strategy Have Legs?; A Ratchet Effect?; Notes; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283834780

1283834782

9780815724285

0815724284

OCLC:

830170336