A legacy of learning : your stake in standards and new kinds of public schools /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kearns, David T.
Other Authors:	Harvey, James, 1944-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2000]
Subjects:	Educational change > United States. Public schools > United States > Evaluation. Education > Standards > United States. Education > United States > Evaluation. Education > Aims and objectives > United States. School management and organization > United States.

Table of Contents:

We need to change
Schools : good and getting better? Or bad and getting worse?
How did we get this way? : decent impulses gone astray
What specifically is wrong?
Lessons from other institutional turnarounds
Applying these other lessons to schools
The great promise of new American schools
Other good news about schools
The politics of change : agreeing to agree
Agenda for change, part 1 : straightening out the system
Agenda for change, part II : hardwiring innovation into the system
Agenda for change, part III : ten ground rules to advance education reform
Appendixes. A. Nine keys to systemic reform. B. Defining the terms of the standards debate. C. Resources for change.