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The urban school system of the future : applying the principles and lessons of chartering / Andy Smarick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smarick, Andy.
- Series:
- New frontiers in education.
- New frontiers in education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban schools.
- School management and organization.
- Educational change.
- Education, Urban.
- Charter schools.
- Education, Urban--United States.
- Educational change--United States.
- School management and organization--United States.
- Charter schools--United States.
- Urban schools--United States.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system-the district-has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of today's and tomorrow's inner-city kids, it must be replaced. The Urban School System of the Future argues that vastly better results can be realized through the creation of a new type of organization that properly manages a city's portfolio of schools using the revolutionary principles of chartering. It
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Traditional Urban School District; Chapter 1: The Failure of the Urban District; Chapter 2: The Failure of Reform; Chapter 3: The Quality Curve; Chapter 4: The Failure of Fixing; Part II: Urban Charter Schooling; Chapter 5: The Charter Revolution; Chapter 6: The Charter Quality Curve; Chapter 7: The Systemic Innovations of Chartering; Part III: Urban Private Schooling; Chapter 8: Private Schooling and the Public System; Chapter 9: The Private Quality Curve; Part IV: The Urban School System of the Future
- Chapter 10: Characteristics of the New SystemChapter 11: Finishing the Job
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-41673-9
- 979-82-16-30459-3
- 1-283-86485-1
- 1-60709-478-9
- OCLC:
- 820630887
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