Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning!

Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning!
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Publisher : Teachers College Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0807738840
ISBN-13 : 9780807738849
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Book Synopsis Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning! by : Donald R. McAdams

Download or read book Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning! written by Donald R. McAdams and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don McAdams, one of a small group of activists elected to the Houston Independent School District Board of Education in 1989, provides a fast moving first-person account of successful reform in the nation’s seventh largest school district. With tact and wisdom, the author shows that school reform is seldom about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Rather, it is mostly about power, status, and money. This is a great story filled with conflict and surprising turns of fate. No one interested in politics, governance, and management of urban school districts can afford to miss Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools . . . and Winning!

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