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Challenges of Urban Education and Efficacy of School Reform: Advances in Educational Administration

Autor Richard C. Hunter, Frank Brown, Kate Alexander
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 dec 2002
In an overview of the state of reform of the US education system a number of experts discuss issues ranging from the economics of inequality, urban economics and the digital divide to problems of discrimination, desegregation and choice, vouchers and privatization.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780762304264
ISBN-10: 076230426X
Pagini: 358
Dimensiuni: 150 x 225 x 787 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Emerald Publishing
Seria Advances in Educational Administration


Cuprins

List of contributors. Preface (K. Alexander). Introduction and organization of the book (R.C. Hunter, F. Brown). Urban Schools and their Students. Diversity and reform (R. Contreras). Historical struggles for equity: politics of education and language policies and its implications for
Asian Americans (Ji-Yeon Jo, Xue Lan Rong). Update on school desegregation (C.J. Russo). Back to the future with the end of brown: community control of neighborhoods (F. Brown). Discrimination in tracking and specialized education programs (R.C. Hunter, S. Donahoo). Urban economics and financial factors
affecting education (S. Lawton). Accountability and Equity. The structure of inequality: tracking and
educational opportunity in America's public schools (P. Green). The digital divide in America's public schools (P.T.K. Daniel). Supervision's primary task: synthesizing professional
development to meet individual teacher needs and attain school organizational goals (S. Lucas). School leadership for 21st century urban communities (L. Valverde). Adequacy issues in financing urban schools(J.G. Ward). Standardized testing and assessment policy: impact on racial minorities and implications for educational leadership (D.G. Williams, L. Parker). Instructional efficiency vs. social reform: fundamentals of the tracking debate(A. Lehr). School Reform Strategies. Initiating work teams to reform the American High School (T.H. Mozingo). Choice, vouchers and privatization as education
reform or the fulfillment of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy? (F. Brown). Filing for academic bankruptcy: the impact and
economics of state takeovers (R.C. Hunter, S. Donahoo). African American parental involvement in urban school reform: implications for leadership (L.C. Tillman). Reconstitution, Small schools, site-based management, etc. (J.E. Lyons).