Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago

by Anthony S. Bryk, Stuart Luppescu, Penny Bender Sebring, et al.

Book Overview

In 1988, the Chicago public school system decentralized, granting parents and communities significant resources and authority to reform their schools in dramatic ways. To track the effects of this bold experiment, the authors of Organizing Schools for Improvement collected a wealth of data on elementary schools in Chicago. Over a seven-year period they identified one hundred elementary schools that had substantially improved--and one hundred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226078000
• ISBN13: 9780226078007
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"