So Much Reform, So Little Change The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools

Name: So Much Reform, So Little Change The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools
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ISBN: 9781891792885

ISBN-10: 1891792881

ISBN-13: 9781891792885

Edition: 2008

Authors: Charles M. Payne

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This frank and courageous book explores the persistence of failure in today?s urban schools. At its heart is the argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighborhoods. Charles M. Payne argues that we have failed to account fully for the weakness of the social infrastructure and the often dysfunctional organizational environments of urban schools and school systems. The result is that liberals and conservatives alike have spent a great deal of time pursuing questions of limited practical value in the effort to improve city schools.Payne carefully delineates these stubborn and…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 273
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Charles M. Payne is Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of African American studies, History and Sociology at Duke University. He is the author of the prize-winning I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement .