03164cam a2200445 i 4500 118460 118460 17925685 BJBSDDR 20230411090911.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 131029s2014 ilua b 001 0 eng c 2013043365 9780226124728 (pbk. : alk. paper) 022612472X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226124865 (e-book) ICU/DLC eng ICU rda DL C eng pcc n-us-il n-us-ny n-us-pa n-us-ca LA 217.2 M478a 2014 370.973 McDonald, Joseph P., 28385 1974- American school reform : what works, what fails, and why / Joseph P. McDonald ; with Jolley Bruce Christman, Thomas B. Corcoran, Norm Fruchter, Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Gordon Pradl, Gabriel Reich, Mark Smylie, Joan Talbert. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014. x, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-186) and index. The 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. Dissecting 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. Educational change Illinois Chicago. Cambio educativo Estados Unidos 16492 Educational change New York (State) New York. Educational change Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Educational change California San Francisco Bay Area. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-01-16 0 LA 217.2 M478a 2014 00000163131 2023-01-16 00:00:00 1 2023-01-16 BK