{"product_id":"becoming-good-american-schools-9780787962241","title":"Becoming Good American Schools","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA convincing portrait of teachers actively engaged in educational reform...offering a hopeful yet realistic vision of revitalized democracy inspired by a passion for the public good. This book is an eloquent defense of civic virtue.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJonathan Kozol\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAmazing Grace\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSavage Inequalities\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRich, realistic, invigorating, and scary. Any middle school educator who has been part of an effort to reform the educational process will see himself or herself in this book--as the brave risk taker, the naive visionary, the frightened frontline trooper, and the touched individual who can make a difference.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJudy Cunningham\u003c\/b\u003e, principal, South Lake Middle School, Irvine, California\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book tells the stories of sixteen schools in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, and Vermont that sought to alter their structures and practices and become places fostering innovative ideas, caring people, principles of social justice, and democratic proce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...is a provocative and challenging analysis...\" (Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, Volume 7, #3)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSITUATING THE STRUGGLE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Struggle to Become Good Schools.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Contradictions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOUR CULTURAL STRUGGLES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBecoming Educative.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBecoming Socially Just.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBecoming Caring.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBecoming Participatory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBECOMING BETTER.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStruggling to Scale Up.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStruggling in the Reform Mill.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Passion for the Public Good.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Studying the Technical, Normative, and Political Dimensions of School Reform.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515483513175,"sku":"9780787962241","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/becoming-good-american-schools-9780787962241","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}