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Excellence for All: How a New Breed of Reformers Is Transforming America's Public Schools

Excellence for All: How a New Breed of Reformers Is Transforming America's Public Schools

Schneider, Jack

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General EducationGeneral Political ScienceGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0826518117
ISBN13: 9780826518118
Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr
Published: Dec 30 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
By the early twentyfirst century, a startling consensus had emerged about the overall aim of American school reform. In an era of political discord, and in a field historically known for contentiousness, the notion of promoting educational excellence for all students was a distinct point of bipartisan agreement. Shaped by a corps of entrepreneurial reformers intent on finding what works and taking it to scale, this hybrid vision won over the nation's most ambitious and wellresourced policy leaders at foundations and nonprofits, in state and federal government, and in urban school districts from coast to coast.

Excellence for all might, at first glance, appear to be nothing more than a rhetorical flourish. Who, after all, would oppose the idea of a great education for every student? Yet it is hardly a throwaway phrase. Rather, it represents a surprising fusion of educational policy approaches that had been in tense opposition throughout the twentieth centurythose on the right favoring social efficiency, and those on the left supporting social justice.

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