Böcker av George W. Noblit

Examines how school districts and national school reform organizations can work together to promote effective school reform district wide. Using a set of urban school district cases, this book analyzes how districts and the SDP learned to collaborate and what mechanisms seem to be especially promising in bringing systemic reform to life.

This volume is a series of studies of schooling in its social context. The first section focuses on becoming and being a teacher. The second section focuses on the school and the district, and the implementation of change. The final section concerns the transition to adulthood and explores the ways young workers learn on the job.

Looking at the issue of the arts and school reform, this book explores how the incorporation of the arts into the identity of a school can be key to its resilience. It offers a comprehensive analysis of arts in education initiatives that discusses the political, fiscal, and curricular implications inherent in taking the arts seriously.