Compete or close : traditional neighborhood schools under pressure /

The book is an ethnographic study of a public high school under pressure to compete with charter schools.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McWilliams, Julia A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2019]
Series:Education politics and policy series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A dying business: traditional neighborhood schools in the age of choice
  • Charter school expansion and competition: paving the road to mass school closures in Philadelphia
  • Building a brand: the making of the "Asian high school"
  • An uneasy alliance: school marketing and community partnerships
  • The great values drift: the toll of living through market-based school reform
  • Competition, markets, and the challenge of equity for traditional public schools.