Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform (Jossey Bass Education Series),Used

Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform (Jossey Bass Education Series),Used

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"A convincing portrait of teachers actively engaged in educational reform...offering a hopeful yet realistic vision of revitalized democracy inspired by a passion for the public good. This book is an eloquent defense of civic virtue."Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities"Rich, realistic, invigorating, and scary. Any middle school educator who has been part of an effort to reform the educational process will see himself or herself in this bookas the brave risk taker, the naive visionary, the frightened frontline trooper, and the touched individual who can make a difference."Judy Cunningham, principal, South Lake Middle School, Irvine, CaliforniaThis book tells the stories of sixteen schools in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, and Vermont that sought to alter their structures and practices and become places fostering innovative ideas, caring people, principles of social justice, and democratic processes. Based on longitudinal, comparative casestudy research, these accounts attest to the power of committing to public virtue and the struggle of educators to transform that commitment into changed school practice. The authors argue that better schools will come only when policy makers, educators, and citizens move beyond technical and bureaucratic reforms to engage in the same educative, socially just, caring, and participatory processes they want for schoolchildren. Those processes constitute bettermentboth the means and the ends of school reform. Becoming Good American Schools is for administrators, policy makers, practitioners, and citizens who are prepared to blend inspiration and caution, idealism and skepticism in their own pursuit of good schools.

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