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The Education Mayor : Improving America's Schools.
In 2002 the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. But years before NCLB was signed, a new movement was already under way by mayors to take control of city schools from school boards and integrate the management of public educati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
Georgetown University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | American governance and public policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: Mayoral Governance in Education Gains Prominence; Chapter One: The Historical and Political Context of Integrated Governance; Chapter Two: The New-Style Education Mayors; Chapter Three: Evaluating the Effects of Mayoral Control; Chapter Four: Integrated Governance as a Strategy to Improve School Performance; Chapter Five: Considering the Gap between High- and Low- Performing Schools; Chapter Six: Accountability and Urban High Schools: The Challenge of Improving Instructional Practices.
- Chapter Seven: Toward Strategic Deployment of ResourcesChapter Eight: The Political Dynamics of Building Public Support for Education; Chapter Nine: Mayorally Governed School Districts as Laboratories of Democracy; Appendix: Achievement Analysis Methodology and Additional Findings for Chapter Four; Notes; References; Index.