A Race Against Time: The Crisis in Urban Schooling (Hardcover)

Introduction Urban Education Reform: Competing Approaches by William Lowe Boyd and James G. Cibulka Systems Reforms of Urban School Systems Accountability at the Improv: Brief Sketches of School Reform in Los Angeles by Charles Taylor Kerchner and David Menefee-Libey Philadelphia's Children Achieving Initiative: The Promise and Challenge of Systemic Reform in an Urban School District by Jolley Bruce Christman, et al. Balancing Autonomy and Control in the New York City Public Schools: Using the Double ACE Model by Bruce D. Cooper and David C. Bloomfield Increasing Mayoral Influence Over Urban Schools Mayoral Takeover: The Different Directions Taken in Different Cities by Michael W. Kirst and Katrina E. Bulkley From Court Street to City Hall: Governance Change in the Boston Public Schools by Gary Yee Regime Change: Mayoral Takeover of the Chicago Public Schools by Dorothy Shipps Implementation of an Accountability Agenda in High Schools: Integrated Governance in the Chicago Public Schools by Kenneth K. Wong, et al. External Intervention to Improve Urban School Systems State and Federal Intervention to Improve Baltimore and Washington, D.C.,'s Public Schools by James G. Cibulka Conclusion Urban Education Reform Strategies: Comparative Analysis and Conclusions by James G. Cibulka and William Lowe Boyd References Index