The Practice of School Reform: Lessons from Two Centuries - Softcover

Nehring, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438428464 ISBN 13: 9781438428468

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2009

Synopsis

Provides practical advice for educators struggling for change.

Former high school teacher, school leader, activist, consultant, and now professor of education James Nehring combines vivid case studies with practical suggestions to describe how the system works to thwart good schools and what educators can do to improve them. In this book he paints the big picture of school reform in the United States, deftly distilling broad cultural patterns into useful advice for reform-minded educators. Bringing history alive through the carefully rendered stories of five schools past and present that have successfully swum against the mainstream, Nehring shows how educators can overcome the lie of the quick fix through mindful adaptation. The Practice of School Reform is a highly readable diagnosis of some of education's deepest ills and provides practical prescriptions that can empower educators to remedy them.

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About the Author

James Nehring is Assistant Professor in the Leadership in Schooling Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of The School within Us: The Creation of an Innovative Public School, also published by SUNY Press, and Upstart Startup: Creating and Sustaining a Public Charter School.

From the Back Cover

Former high school teacher, school leader, activist, consultant, and now professor of education James Nehring combines vivid case studies with practical suggestions to describe how the system works to thwart good schools and what educators can do to improve them. In this book he paints the big picture of school reform in the United States, deftly distilling broad cultural patterns into useful advice for reform-minded educators. Bringing history alive through the carefully rendered stories of five schools past and present that have successfully swum against the mainstream, Nehring shows how educators can overcome the lie of the quick fix through mindful adaptation. The Practice of School Reform is a highly readable diagnosis of some of education's deepest ills and provides practical prescriptions that can empower educators to remedy them.

"This is a welcome and timely addition to the growing body of research exposing the ills of the so-called back-to-basics, standardization, and No Child Left Behind movements." -- Tony L. Talbert, Baylor University

"This book is for the newly tenured teacher who is ready to challenge her- or himself and make teaching a true vocation." -- Douglas McKnight, author of Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity: Education's "Errand into the Wilderness"

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438428464
• ISBN 13: 9781438428468
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152