In Where Teachers Thrive, Susan Moore Johnson outlines a powerful argument about the importance of the school as an organization in nurturing high‐quality teaching.
Improving School Board Effectiveness offers a clarifying and essential look at the evolving role of school boards and how they contribute to efforts to improve student learning.
Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform
Edited by Katrina E. Bulkley, Jeffrey R. Henig and Henry M. Levin
Foreword by Larry Cuban
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9781934742686
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Pub Date: October 2010
Format: Paperback
Between Public and Private examines an innovative approach to school district managment that has been adopted by a number of uban disctricts in recent years: a portfolio management model, in which “a central office oversees a portfolio of schools offering diverse organizational and curricular themes, including traditional public schools, private organizations, and charter schools.”
Educational Innovation and Philadelphia's School of the Future
Edited by Mary Cullinane and Frederick M. Hess
Price: $33.00
ISBN: 9781934742440
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Pub Date: February 2010
Format: Paperback
"What Next? offers a detailed study of the School of the Future's first three years (2006–2009) revealing what the School of the Future can teach us about high school redesign, public-private partnerships, and the use of technology in school reform.
by Larry Cuban, Gary Lichtenstein, Arthur Evenchik, Martin Tombari and Kristen Pozzobini
Price: $29.00
ISBN: 9781934742464
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Pub Date: January 2010
Format: Paperback
Against the Odds offers an in-depth look at the Mapleton, Colorado, school district’s transformation of two traditional high schools into seven small schools, each enrolling fewer than four hundred students.
