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LEARNING FROM L.A.
INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION |
| By: |
Charles Taylor Kerchner, David J Menefee-Libey, Laura Steen Mulfinger |
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Paperback |
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£31.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1934742023 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781934742020 |
| Publisher: |
HARVARD EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2008 |
| Description: |
Learning from L.A. traces four decades of educational reform in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Examining the successes and failures of these reforms serves as a microcosm of the major changes seen in public education across the country. |
| Synopsis: |
Drawing on a four-year study of the last 40 years of education reform in Los Angeles, Learning from L.A. captures the sweeping change in American education. It puts forth a provocative argument: while school reformers and education historians have tended to focus on the success or failure of individual initiatives, they have overlooked the fact that, over the past several decades, the institution of public education itself has been transformed. Colorful characters, dramatic encounters, and political skirmishes enliven this rich account of the wrenching transformations that took place in the Los Angeles Unified School District from the 1960s onward. The book focuses particularly on four key ideas that emerged through a succession of reforms beginning in the 1990s decentralization, standards, school choice, and grassroots participation. Though the particular plans that gave rise to these ideas may have faded, the ideas themselves have taken root and developed in ways that those who inaugurated or participated in these reforms never anticipated." Winner of Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Districts in Research and Reform Publication Award, American Educational Research Association" |
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US |
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group |
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Returnable |
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