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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825741803321

Titolo

City schools [[electronic resource] ] : lessons from New York / / edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8018-7671-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RavitchDiane

ViterittiJoseph P. <1946->

Disciplina

371.0097471

Soggetti

Education, Urban - New York (State) - New York

Education, Elementary

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Education in the City; 1 Schooling in New York City: The Socioeconomic Context; 2 Public Schools That Work; PART I I Governance; 3 The Difference between Charter Schools and Charterlike Schools; 4 Contractual Constraints on School Management: Principals' Perspectives on the Teacher Contract; 5 The Bronx Leadership Academy High School: The Challenges of Innovation; PART III Defining Good Pedagogy; 6 The Teacher Crisis and Educational Standards; 7 Teaching Reading: Phonics and the Whole-Language Method

8 Teaching Language Minorities: Theory and Reality9 The Education of Handicapped Children; PART IV Nonpublic Schools; 10 Catholic Schools; 11 Jewish Day Schools; 12 Historically Black Independent Schools; PART V Choice; 13 Public School Choice: A Status Report; 14 When Low-Income Students Move from Public to Private Schools; 15 School Finance Reform: Introducing the Choice Factor; Index