City Schools : Lessons from New York.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (422 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Education in the City -- 1 Schooling in New York City: The Socioeconomic Context -- 2 Public Schools That Work -- PART I I Governance -- 3 The Difference between Charter Schools and Charterlike Schools -- 4 Contractual Constraints on School Management: Principals' Perspectives on the Teacher Contract -- 5 The Bronx Leadership Academy High School: The Challenges of Innovation -- PART III Defining Good Pedagogy -- 6 The Teacher Crisis and Educational Standards -- 7 Teaching Reading: Phonics and the Whole-Language Method -- 8 Teaching Language Minorities: Theory and Reality -- 9 The Education of Handicapped Children -- PART IV Nonpublic Schools -- 10 Catholic Schools -- 11 Jewish Day Schools -- 12 Historically Black Independent Schools -- PART V Choice -- 13 Public School Choice: A Status Report -- 14 When Low-Income Students Move from Public to Private Schools -- 15 School Finance Reform: Introducing the Choice Factor -- Index.
Rossell, Boston University; Marvin Schick, Avi Chai Foundation; Mark Schneider, SUNY, Stony Brook; Lee Stuart, South Bronx Churches; Paul Teske, SUNY, Stony Brook; Emanuel Tobier, New York University; Joanna P. Williams, Columbia University.