New Hope for Urban High Schools Cultural Reform, Moral Leadership, and Community Partnership

Name: New Hope for Urban High Schools Cultural Reform, Moral Leadership, and Community Partnership
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ISBN: 9780275991654

ISBN-10: 0275991652

ISBN-13: 9780275991654

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lisa Gonsalves, John Leonard, Lee Teitel

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The last sixty years have seen tremendous strides in high school education. More young people of all races and backgrounds are graduating from high school, with more credits in tougher courses, than ever before. However, our dropout rate is still too high and far too many graduates are not prepared for college. High school reform for city schools has been particularly challenging where poverty and racism have undermined the high school experience. Educators have relied upon two reform strategies: the curricular strategy focuses on the academic content that is delivered in the classroom, content reformers have adjusted. They also have restructured the high school itself to maximize the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

LISA GONSALVES is Assistant Professor at the Graduate College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston. She also serves as Faculty Coordinator of the Teach Next Year Professional Development School Teacher Preparation Program at Dorchester High School.




Introduction : reforming our most troubled urban high schools


The history of Dorchester High School 1945 to 2006



Demographics, discrimination, and decline : the destruction of Dorchester High 1945 to 1970



The fragmentation of culture and community : the long, slow decline of Dorchester High School 1969 to 1982



Help is on the way : the community comes to Dorchester High School 1982 to 1989



Reports from the circus : the community goes after the school committee 1982 to 1991



Back to square one at Dorchester High School 1989 to 1995



The community returns to Dorchester High School 1996 to 1999



Bruises and betrayals : the last years of Dorchester High School 1999 to 2003



Learning how to educate together : the hope and promise of small high schools 2003 to 2006


Lessons learned for urban education



A conceptual framework for enacting cultural reform in struggling urban high schools : re-engaging the community



School culture and school partnerships



Consider the challenges of urban adolescents



The ecological systems model and the development of the school leader



School values and moral authority