01795nam a2200241Ia 4500 CTU_136198 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 29.00 371.200973 B398 Oakes, Jeannie Becoming good American schools : The struggle for civic virtue in education reform Jeannie Oakes ... [et al.] San Francisco, Calif. Jossey-Bass 2000 This book tells the stories of sixteen schools in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, and Vermont that sought to alter their structures and practices and become places fostering innovative ideas, caring people, principles of social justice, and democratic processes. Based on longitudinal, comparative case-study research, these accounts attest to the power of committing to public virtue and the struggle of educators to transform that commitment into changed school practice. The authors argue that better schools will come only when policy makers, educators, and citizens move beyond technical and bureaucratic reforms to engage in the same educative, socially just, caring, and participatory processes they want for schoolchildren. Those processes constitute betterment--both the means and the ends of school reform. Becoming Good American Schools is for administrators, policy makers, practitioners, and citizens who are prepared to blend inspiration and caution, idealism and skepticism in their own pursuit of good schools. Trường học,School improvement programs,Educational change,Public schools Nước Mỹ United States,United States,United States Giang Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ