Strife and Progress: Portfolio Strategies for Managing Urban Schools by Paul T.

Description: Strife and Progress by Paul T. Hill, Christine Campbell, Betheny Gross Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Deficient urban schooling remains one of Americas 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. Publisher Description "Deficient urban schooling remains one of Americas 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 chartering and experimentation with schools making innovative use of people and technology. Urban districts try to make themselves magnets for new talent, recruiting educators and career switchers looking to make a difference for poor children.The portfolio strategy creates interesting new bedfellows: people who think that government should oversee public education align with those advocating choice, competition, and entrepreneurship. It cuts across political lines and engages city governments and civic assets (e.g., philanthropies, businesses, universities) much more deeply than earlier reform initiatives. New York and New Orleans were portfolio pioneers, but the idea has spread rapidly to cities as far-flung as Los Angeles, Denver, and Chicago.Results have been mixed overall but generally positive in places that implemented the strategy most aggressively. Reform leaders such as New Yorks Joel Klein have been overly optimistic, however, assuming that the strategys merits would be so obvious that careful assessment would be unnecessary. Serious policy evaluation is still needed." Author Biography Paul T. Hill is a research professor at the University of Washington Bothell. He is the founder and former director of the University of Washington Bothells Center on Reinventing Public Education and a distinguished visiting fellow and a member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education at the Hoover Institution. He is coauthor (with Mary Beth Celio) of Fixing Urban Schools (Brookings, 1998) and (with Christine Campbell and James Harvey) It Takes a City (Brookings, 2000).Christine Campbell is a senior research analyst and policy director at the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Betheny Gross is a senior research analyst and research director at the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Before working at CRPE, she was a research analyst at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Details ISBN 0815724276 ISBN-13 9780815724278 Title Strife and Progress Author Paul T. Hill, Christine Campbell, Betheny Gross Format Paperback Year 2012 Pages 150 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield GE_Item_ID:48483268; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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