A legacy of learning
A legacy of learning: your stake in standards and new kinds of public schools David T. Kearns and James Harvey
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2000.
ISBN: 0815748949
DDC: 371.010973
LCC: LA217.2
Edition: (alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We need to change -- Schools: good and getting better? Or bad and
getting worse? -- How did we get this way?: decent impulses gone
astray -- What specifically is wrong? -- Lessons from other
institutional turnarounds -- Applying these other lessons to schools
-- The great promise of new American schools -- Other good news about
schools -- The politics of change: agreeing to agree -- Agenda for
change, part 1: straightening out the system-- Agenda for change,
part II: hardwiring innovation into the system -- Agenda for change,
part III: ten ground rules to advance education reform --Appendixes.
A. Nine keys to systemic reform. B. Defining the terms of the
standards debate. C. Resources for change.
Language: eng
Physical Description: xii, 226 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (alk. paper)
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