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Syracuse University; Northwestern University.
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So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools (By: Charles M Payne) published: June, 2008
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So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools
(This frank and courageous book explores the persistence o...)
This frank and courageous book explores the persistence of failure in today s urban schools. At its heart is the argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighborhoods. Charles M. Payne argues that we have failed to account fully for the weakness of the social infrastructure and the often dysfunctional organizational environments of urban schools and school systems. The result is that liberals and conservatives alike have spent a great deal of time pursuing questions of limited practical value in the effort to improve city schools. Payne carefully delineates these stubborn and intertwined sources of failure in urban school reform efforts of the past two decades. Yet while his book is unsparing in its exploration of the troubled recent history of urban school reform, Payne also describes himself as guardedly optimistic. He describes how, in the last decade, we have developed real insights into the roots of school failure, and into how some individual schools manage to improve. He also examines recent progress in understanding how particular urban districts have established successful reforms on a larger scale.
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Charles Payne
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He was the Chief Education Officer for Chicago Public Schools and used to be the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago"s School of Social Service Administration. Charles Payne received a Bachelor"s Degree in Afro-American studies from Syracuse University in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from Northwestern University in 1976. He has held professorial positions and endowed chairs at several American institutions, among them Southern University, Williams College, Haverford College, Northwestern, Duke University, where he held the Sally Dalton Robinson Chair for Teaching Excellence, and the University of Chicago (Frank P Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration).
Payne has also been active in the creation and direction of several organizations intended to address issues of social justice.
He is the founding director of the Urban Education Project in Orange, New Jersey, a community-based effort to provide advanced career training for local youth. While at Duke, he co-founded the John Hope Franklin Scholars, a program that helps Durham-area high schoolers prepare for and apply to college.
His other projects have included the Duke Curriculum Project, the Education for Liberators Network, and work with the Chicago Algebra Project and with the Steering Committee for the Consortium on Chicago School Research. His most recent books are So Much Reform, So Little Change (Harvard Education Publication Group, 2008 ) and an anthology about the African-American tradition of education for liberation entitled Teach Freedom (Teacher"s College Press, 2008).
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So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools
(This frank and courageous book explores the persistence o...)
- So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools (By: Charles M Payne) published: June, 2008
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So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools
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