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: 9781891792892

ISBN-10: 189179289X

ISBN-13: 9781891792892

Edition: 2008

Authors: Charles 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: $49.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard Education Publishing Group (HEPG)
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 273
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
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 .




Dimensions of Demoralization



"I Don't Want Your Nasty Pot of Gold": From Social Demoralization to Organizational Irrationality



Weak Skills and Bad Attitudes: Teaching in the Slums



Sympathy, Knowledge, and Truth: Teaching Black Children



"You Can't Kill It and You Can't Teach It": Bureaucracy and the Institutional Environment



Missing the Inner Intent: The Predictable Failures of Implementation



A Curse on Both Their Houses: Liberal and Conservative Theories of School Reform


Epilogue


Program Glossary


Notes


References


About the Author


Index