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In 1989, Chicago began an experiment with radical decentralization of power and authority. This book tells the story of what happened to Chicago's elementary schools in the first four years of this reform. Implicit in this reform is the theory that expanded local democratic participation would stimulate organizational change within schools, which in turn would foster improved teaching and learning. Using this theory as a framework, the authors marshal massive quantitative and qualitative data to examine how the reform actually unfolded at the school level.With longitudinal case study data on 22 schools, survey responses from principals and teachers in 269 schools, and supplementary system-wide administrative data, the authors identify four types of school politics: strong democracy, consolidated principal power, maintenance, and adversarial. In addition, they classify school change efforts as either systemic or unfocused. Bringing these strands together, the authors determine that, in about a third of the schools, expanded local democratic participation served as a strong lever for introducing systemic change focused on improved instruction. Finally, case studies of six actively restructuring schools illustrate how under decentralization the principal's role is recast, social support for change can grow, and ideas and information from external sources are brought to bear on school change initiatives. Few studies intertwine so completely extensive narratives and rigorous quantitative analyses. The result is a complex picture of the Chicago reform that joins the politics of local control to school change.This volume is intended for scholars in the fields of urban education, public policy, sociology of education, anthropology of education, and politics of education. Comprehensive and descriptive, it is an engaging text for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates. Local, state, and federal policymakers who are concerned with urban education will find new and insightful material. The book should be on reading lists and in professional development seminars for school principals who want to garner community support for change and for school community leaders who want more responsive local institutions. Finally, educators, administrators, and activists in Chicago will appreciate this detailed analysis of the early years of reform.
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ation at the University of Chicago, senior director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research, and director of the Center for School Improvement. His previous books include Catholic Schools and the Common Good and Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods.Penny Bender Sebring is a senior research associate at the University of Chicago and a director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research. David Kerbow is research associate at the Center for School Improvement, University of Chicago. Sharon Rollow is director of research for the Center for School Improvement, University of Chicago. John Q. Easton is director of Research, Analysis, and Assessment at the Chicago Public Schools and a director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research.
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- PublisherPerseus
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0813366259
- ISBN 13 9780813366258
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- Edition number1
- Number of pages404
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