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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795025203321

Autore

Fuller Bruce

Titolo

When schools work : pluralist politics and institutional reform in Los Angeles / / Bruce Fuller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4214-4278-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Disciplina

370.9794/94

Soggetti

Academic achievement - California - Los Angeles

Education and state - California - Los Angeles

Public schools - California - Los Angeles

Educational change - California - Los Angeles

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The author delves into a promising mystery, challenging critics of public schools in America: Why did student learning climb for two decades in Los Angeles, which has the nation's second-largest public school district? The author discovers a colorful and pluralist politics of the city that sparked a variety of institutional reforms and yielded gains for students and teachers alike"--