What the Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom-Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era

by Eric Kalenze

Early in the 2000s, a high-school principal in Minnesota, Dr. Bob Perdaems, faced a complex challenge. The demographics of his school were shifting, political tensions in the surrounding communities were rising, and, thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act's new testing and accountability requirements, his school's performance was soon to be scrutinized more intensely and more publicly than ever before. While he had several visions of how his school...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912906260
• ISBN13: 9781912906260
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: John Catt Educational
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"