Reforming schools : working within a progressive tradition during conservative times /

Reforming schools : working within a progressive tradition during conservative times /

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Author / Creator:	Goodman, Jesse, 1948-
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 149 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	School improvement programs -- United States. School management and organization -- United States. Curriculum change -- United States. Curriculum change. School improvement programs. School management and organization. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11146685

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ISBN:	1423795296 9781423795292 9780791481530 0791481530 0791467953 0791467961 9780791467954
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-140) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"In Reforming Schools, Jesse Goodman discusses the possibilities, struggles, and complexities involved in reforming today's schools. Drawing from his own experiences at the Harmony Education Center - a progressive educational center he helped establish in 1990 - Goodman offers a vision of how to persevere at a time when many progressive educators are feeling discouraged. He focuses on practical ideas for reform, such as establishing school autonomy; creating democratic structures, rituals, and values upon which school reform discourse can be generated; and by addressing the current conservative agenda, how to influence what happens in our nation's public schools. By situating school reform within a progressive history of Western society, the author offers valuable insights and ideas that are alternatives to both the conservative and the radical left analyses of schools and society."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Goodman, Jesse, 1948- Reforming schools. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006 0791467953

Table of Contents:

The times in which we work : the conservative restoration
Creating a progressive educational organization : Harmony Education Center in its historical context
The local politics of educational reform : issues of school autonomy
Constructing a democratic foundation for school-based reform discourse
Addressing the conservative agenda : discourses of school-based reform
Conclusion : reflections from the field
Notes.