Urban Schools, Public Will: Making Education for All Our Children

In this important book, Norm Fruchter argues that our national failure to carry out the Brown mandate has produced segregated urban school systems that fail to educate poor students of color. Drawing on a rich array of research and personal experience, he examines why urban districts have failed and what must be done to transform our city schools. He identifies urban districts as the key actors in this transformation and profiles three school districts that have achieved significant success in closing the achievement gap. He also identifies grassroots community organizing as a critical lever for provoking and supporting meaningful change in schools. This provocative book should be read by all educators, policymakers, parents, and civic activists committed to improving public education for all students.
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<li>Vignettes from the author’s broad experience with public schooling―teacher, parent organizer, school board member, foundation grant-maker, evaluator, and researcher.</li>
<li>An in-depth look at effective schools and the policies that support them. </li>
<li>Strategies used by grassroots campaigns to improve local schools and districts.</li>
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Politics & Social Sciences

Fruchter, Norm

Sociology

Teachers' College Press

This book, the second in the Twentieth Century Fund's series of studies on the privatization of public services, finds that current arguments for privatizing schools are based on wishful thinking.After examining what the actual experience has been with privatization around the country, Hard Lessons concludes that the promise of saving money and improving educational quality through privatization is, at minimum, being oversold. While this report is likely to be disputed by those who have a strong attachment to the notion that privatizing always improves output--and by those with a financial stake in the for-profit school "industry"--it will be an important part of the ongoing debate.The report, which focuses on big city schools, argues that while the magic wand of privatization must be abandoned, the efforts to solve the problems facing our nation's urban schools must continue; there are hard questions to be asked, new solutions to be tried, and the case must continually be made for new resources for our public schools, even in today's political climate.

Hard Lessons: Public Schools and Privatization (Twentieth Century Fund Report)

Education & Teaching

Berne, Robert

Ascher, Carol

Schools & Teaching

Twentieth Century Fund

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