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The Futures of School Reform represents the culminating work of a three-year discussion among national education leaders convened by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Based on the recognition that current education reform efforts have reached their limits, the volume maps out a variety of bold visions that push the boundaries of our current thinking. Taken together, these visions identify the leverage points for generating dramatic change and highlight critical trade-offs among different courses of action.

The goal of this book is not to present a menu of options. Rather, it is to surface contrasting assumptions, tensions, constraints, and opportunities, so that together we can better understand--and act on--the choices that lie before us.
About the Author: Jal Mehta is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His primary research interests are in understanding the relationship between knowledge and action; substantively, he is most interested in the policy and politics of creating high-quality schooling at scale. Mehta received his PhD in sociology and social policy from Harvard University. His dissertation, The Transformation of American Educational Policy, 1980-2001, recently received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the AERA politics' section. Mehta is coauthor of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings (Basic Books, 2004), which was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award. He is the author of the forthcoming book, The Allure of Order: The Troubled Quest to Rationalize a Century of American Schooling (Oxford University Press), which charts the growing "rationalization" of American schooling, asking what this shift means for the educational field, for the teaching profession, and for social justice. He is also working on a project, The Chastened Dream, about the limits and possibilities of using social science as a means of achieving social progress.

Robert B. Schwartz is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He held a wide variety of leadership positions in education and government before joining the HGSE faculty in 1996. He holds an MA from Brandeis University. From 1997 to 2002, Schwartz served as president of Achieve, Inc., an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization created by governors and corporate leaders to help states improve their schools. From 1990 to 1996, Schwartz directed the education grantmaking program of the Pew Charitable Trusts. In addition to his work at HGSE, Achieve, and the Pew Charitable Trusts, Schwartz has been a high school English teacher and principal, an education advisor to the mayor of Boston and the governor of Massachusetts, an assistant director of the National Institute of Education, a special assistant to the president of the University of Massachusetts, and executive director of the Boston Compact, a public-private partnership designed to improve access to higher education and employment for urban high school graduates.

Frederick M. Hess is an educator, political scientist, and author. He serves as executive editor of Education Next, as lead faculty member for the Rice Education Entrepreneurship Program, on the review board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education, and on the boards of directors for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, 4.0 SCHOOLS, and the American Board for the Certification of Teaching Excellence. He holds a PhD in government from Harvard University. A former high school social studies teacher, Hess has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Rice University, and Harvard University. His recent books include Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit (Harvard Education Press, 2012), The Same Thing Over and Over (Harvard University Press, 2010), Education Unbound (ASCD, 2010), The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship (Harvard Education Press, 2008), Common Sense School Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Revolution at the Margins (Brookings Institution Press, 2002), and Spinning Wheels (Brookings Institution Press, 1998). He also pens the Education Week blog "Rick Hess Straight Up" (http: //blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781612504728
  • Publisher: Harvard Education Pr
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard Education PR
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 700 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1612504728
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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