The prize : who's in charge of America's schools? /

"Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools -- and to solve the education crisis in every city in A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Russakoff, Dale (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Subjects:	Educational change > New Jersey > Newark. Public schools > New Jersey > Newark. Education > Political aspects > New Jersey > Newark. Education and state > New Jersey. Zuckerberg, Mark, > 1984- Booker, Cory. Christie, Chris. EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy.

Table of Contents:

The pact
Seduction in Sun Valley
The view from Avon Avenue
Engaging the community
The rise of the anti-Booker candidacy
Searching for Newark's superman
Hi, I'm Cami
District school, charter school
Transformational change meets the political sausage factory
Alif rising
The leading men move on
One Newark, whose Newark?
No excuses
Appendix I. Where the $200 million went
Appendix II. Newark schools by the numbers.