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City Schools: Lessons from New Yorkreviewed by Karen R. Seashore Louis - 2002 Title: City Schools: Lessons from New York Author(s): Diane Ravitch & Joseph P. Viteritti (eds.) Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore ISBN: 0801863414, Pages: 416, Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com I admit it -- I'm a New York City junkie even though I live in
Minneapolis. I read the New York Times daily (always looking
for school news, of course), and substantially agree with this
volume’s editors that "the problems of education in New York
City are the problems of education in urban America writ large."
(p. 2). The size of New York City’s school enrollment and its
historical position as the system that has, more or less
successfully, assimilated waves of immigrants for over a century
means that it is of interest even to non-residents who have no
special place in their heart for the Big Apple. For people who are
interested in reforming urban education, the role of New York as a
source of lessons, both bad (as documented in David Rogers (1969)
classic analysis of a bureaucracy gone awry) or good (the many case
studies that have been published about District 4's small schools
of choice) is unquestioned. Not surprisingly, given... (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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- Karen Seashore Louis
University of Minnesota E-mail Author KAREN SEASHORE LOUIS is a professor in the Department of
Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota’s
College of Education and Human Development. Her research interests
include organizational theory, schools as workplaces, and leadership.
Recent publications include ‘‘A Culture Framework for Education: Defining
Quality Values for U.S. High Schools’’ with J. R. Detert and R. G. Schroeder
(Journal of School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 12, 2001), and ‘‘School
Improvement Processes and Practices: Professional Learning for Building
Instructional Capacity’’ with J. Spillane (in J. Murphy, Ed., Challenges of Leadership, 2002, Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of
Education, Chicago: University of Chicago).
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