02974cam a2200397 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700600180003400700030005200800410005501000170009602000380011302000350015102000270018604000330021304100080024604200080025404300390026205000250030108200120032610000340033824502290037226400670060130000430066833600210071133700250073233800230075750400670078050502540084752012310110165000430233265000370237565000520241265000520246465000600251617925685BJBSDDR20230411090911.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0ta131029s2014    ilua     b    001 0 eng c  a  2013043365  a9780226124728 (pbk. : alk. paper)  a022612472X (pbk. : alk. paper)  z9780226124865 (e-book)  aICU/DLCbengcICUerdadDL C  aeng  apcc  an-us-ilan-us-nyan-us-paan-us-ca14aLA 217.2bM478a 201400a370.9731 aMcDonald, Joseph P., d1974- 10aAmerican school reform :bwhat works, what fails, and why /cJoseph P. McDonald ; with Jolley Bruce Christman, Thomas B. Corcoran, Norm Fruchter, Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Gordon Pradl, Gabriel Reich, Mark Smylie, Joan Talbert. 1aChicago ; aLondon : bThe University of Chicago Press,c2014.  ax, 199 pages :billustrations ;c23 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 163-186) and index.0 aThe theory of action space -- Action space in Chicago and New York -- Action space in context: Philadelphia and the Bay area -- Learning from collapse in Philadelphia and Chicago -- Learning from connections in New York -- Implications for practice.  aDissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation s largest cities, "American School Reform" offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluate the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challengelaunched in 1994alongside other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area. They look deeply at what school reform really is, how it works, how it fails, and what differences it can make nonetheless. McDonald and his colleagues lay out several interrelated ideas in what they call a theory of action space. Frequently education policy gets so ambitious that implementing it becomes a near impossibility. Action space, however, is what takes shape when talented educators, leaders, and reformers guide the social capital of civic leaders and the financial capital of governments, foundations, corporations, and other backers toward true results. Exploring these extraordinary collaborations through their lifespans and their influences on future efforts, the authors provide political hopethat reform efforts can work, and that our schools can be made better. 0aEducational changezIllinoiszChicago. 4aCambio educativozEstados Unidos 0aEducational changezNew York (State)zNew York. 0aEducational changezPennsylvaniazPhiladelphia. 0aEducational changezCaliforniazSan Francisco Bay Area.