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Standards Reform in High-Poverty Schools: Managing Conflict and Building Capacityreviewed by Tonya R. Moon - 2004 Title: Standards Reform in High-Poverty Schools: Managing Conflict and Building Capacity Author(s): Carol A. Barnes Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807742627, Pages: 159, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com This book is part of the series on school reform and is
organized into seven chapters with a forward by David K. Cohen. The
intent of the book according to the author is to “illustrate
something about the nature of education reform in America using the
experience of people in schools as they struggled to both maintain
and transform their professional responsibilities” (p. xiii).
The book clearly communicates that change is difficult at best and
requires the support of all stakeholders in order to make schools a
better place for both our students and those responsible for their
education.
The book is situated in one high-poverty elementary school (
Mission
Elementary School
) in southern
California
and focuses on the attempts of school staff to reconcile often
times competing state and federal educational initiatives. For
those interested in the improvement of high-poverty schools and the
consequences for these schools of George W. Bush’s No
Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, this book serves as an excellent
resource on the complexity... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Tonya Moon
University of Virginia, Curry School of Education E-mail Author TONYA R. MOON is an assistant professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and a principal investigator for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Her research focuses on the area of accountability initiatives and their influences on classroom practices.
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