[PDF] The Supervision Of City Schools eBook

Author : Heather Lewis
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2015-04-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807772569

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When New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg centralized control of the citys schools in 2002, he terminated the citys 32-year experiment with decentralized school control dubbed by the mayor and the media as the Bad Old Days. Decentralization grew out of the community control movement of the 1960s, which was itself a response to the bad old days of central control of a school system that was increasingly segregated and unequal. In this probing historical account, Heather Lewis draws on new archival sources and oral histories to argue that the community control movement did influence school improvement, in particular African American and Puerto Rican communities in the 1970s and 80s. Lewis shows how educators with unique insights into the relationships between the schools and the communities they served enabled meaningful change, with a focus on instructional improvement and equity that would be familiar to many observers of contemporary education reform. With a resurgence of local organizing and potential challenges to mayoral control, this informative history will be important reading for todays educational and community leaders.

Author : Walter Albert Jessup
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780266401377

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Excerpt from The Social Factors Affecting Special Supervision in the Public Schools of the United States The increase in the number of subjects for instruction in the public school curriculum within recent years has been marked. Many of these subj ects have been introduced into the schools by means of special teachers or supervisors. The administra tive adjustment to this situation has been accompanied by no little difficulty. Special teachers and supervisors have multiplied until it is no uncommon thing to find a single city employing such specialists in a half dozen subjects, including music, draw ing, physical education, manual training, domestic science and penmanship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.