Professor Co-Edits Tome on School District Transformation
William Lowe Boyd, Batschelet chair professor of educational leadership in the College of Education, has co-edited a new book, The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education, published by Harvard Education Press. Other co-editors are Charles Taylor Kerchner, professor at Claremont Graduate University, and Mark Blyth, associate professor at Johns Hopkins University.
This new book draws on case studies of five urban districts -- Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, and Los Angeles -- and traces the rise of new ideas and trends that are reshaping the institution of public education: mayoral control, shifting civic coalitions, federal and state involvement, standards-based accountability and the role of educational outsiders in district administration. Although each city has evolved along a different path, the editors argue that a set of new underlying ideas is being auditioned in the transition to a new institutional model and describe the process by which institutional change occurs.
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