Beschreibung:
This book represents a synthesis of what the authors learned from the first four years of Chicago school reform. It discusses the additional changes needed at the school site and district level if decentralization, Chicago-style, is to result in improvement in learning opportunities for children.
Preface -- Prologue -- Framing Our Analysis: Locating Chicago School Reform Within an Institutional Change Perspective -- Politics as a Lever for Organizational Change -- Catalyzing Basic Organizational Change at the Building Level -- Instructional Change -- Testing the Basic Logic of the Chicago School Reform Act -- A Closer Look at Actively Restructuring Schools -- Major Lessons from the Initiating Phase of Chicago School Reform -- Appendix