Strife and Progress: Portfolio Strategies for Managing Urban Schools

by Betheny Gross, Paul T. Hill, Christine Campbell

Book Overview

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Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing--and stubborn--public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the ""portfolio strategy"" for providing urban education--its rationale, implementation, and results. Under the portfolio strategy, cities use anything that works, indifferent to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815724276
• ISBN13: 9780815724278
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"