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Details a radically different approach to educational change

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Origins
  • 1. The Contemporary Context
  • 2. Moving Schools into the Power Arena
• Part II. Developing Civic Capacity
  • 3. Morningside Middle School: Starting a Path for Change
  • 4. Jefferson Davis High School: The Struggle for Reform
  • 5. Ysleta Elementary School: From Parental Engagement to a New School
  • 6. Zavala Elementary School: Learning the Tools of Democracy
  • 7. San Antonio: Building Networks of Reform throughout the City
  • 8. Texas: Alliance Schools throughout the State
• Part III. Analysts and Critique
  • 9. Resistance to Change
  • 10. The Pursuit of Success
  • 11. “A Great Truth Wants to Be Criticized”
  • 12. Building Laboratories of Democracy
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Dennis Shirley is Associate Dean and Professor of Teacher Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.

Reviews

"Shirley moves comfortably between issues of policy and the specifics of reforms in particular schools. In that way, his work is useful both to those in the policy arena and to those who are involved in the nitty-gritty of school reform... This book reminds us of what democracy is and what it can be in the United States." Howard Gardner, Professor of Education, Harvard University