Head Start teacher, a founding principal of four schools, an elected school board member, a university sch... Meier's governing educational idea is that public schools exist first to prepare young people for democrati... ed against that purpose. At the Central Park East schools and the Mission Hill School, teachers asked of ev... blic speaking, or playfulness with ideas? Meier's schools were meant to be, in her phrase, "hothouses of de
eighborhood — Ravitch attended the Houston public schools and graduated as one of four valedictorians from ... gan writing a history of the New York City public schools under the mentorship of Lawrence Cremin. She earn... tudy examined the conventional belief that common schools served as engines of both social mobility and Americanization and argued that schools were indeed crucial to personal and social advanc
came the foundational philosophy of his folk high schools. In the aftermath of Denmark's 1864 defeat in the... tal opposition between two models of schooling: //schools for death// — the rigid, hierarchical, examinatio... r German, inaccessible to ordinary people — and //schools for life//, responsive to the actual experiences,... ). //The land of the living: The Danish folk high schools and Denmark's non-violent path to modernization//
e in educational discourse, advocating for better schools and accountability in education. His work has lef... nd measurable academic standards for students and schools. He believes that having defined standards is ess... ish academic standards and assessments, requiring schools to demonstrate adequate yearly progress. Finn rec... measures in exposing achievement gaps and holding schools accountable for student performance.
**Critique
ook a pivotal study tour of Prussian and European schools in 1843. He resigned the secretaryship in 1848 to... gical manifesto, they catalogued the condition of schools, outlined best practices, and argued publicly and... gical case for physical training, and the role of schools in the political formation of citizens — but were... ular force, persuading the public that paying for schools was not a burden but an investment that the town
esolution, diversity, and civic responsibility in schools. He joined Harvard University, where he would rem... and more consequential gap: the gap between what schools of every kind — including the most ostensibly suc... ent knowledge is necessary and insufficient: that schools must fundamentally reconceive what they are for, ... eory alone.
==== Change Leadership: Transforming Schools from Within ====
The Change Leadership Group tha
orowick Cremin, who together founded the New York Schools of Music — an institution in which the young Lawr... that education was not the exclusive property of schools but the continuous activity of an entire culture.... ibutions =====
==== Redefining Education: Beyond Schools to All Social Institutions ====
Cremin's single ... his understanding of William Harris's claim that schools were only one of several social institutions enga
ate of Louisiana imposed on participating private schools, which drove higher-quality institutions out of t... families in identifying and accessing appropriate schools.
==== Charter School Funding Inequities and the ... and financial conditions that shape the supply of schools available to families exercising choice. Beginnin... disparities in per-pupil revenues between charter schools and traditional district schools in multiple stat
exities of poverty's impact on children in public schools and developed the conviction that where a child i... he declined an invitation to become New York City Schools Chancellor in order to remain committed to the co... hood-education model built on the conviction that schools alone cannot break the cycle of generational pove... hood programs through the Promise Academy charter schools and college preparatory services, each stage hand
im first at the Latin school in Mansfeld, then at schools in Magdeburg and Eisenach, and finally at the Uni... onal instructional texts of Lutheran churches and schools. He continued to write, preach, lecture, compose ... ermany That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools," he argued that parents could no longer be trust... that municipal governments must fund and operate schools as a matter of public duty. He followed this in 1
e for poetry. He was appointed a lay inspector of schools in 1851, a position he held for thirty-five years, during which he carried out official visits to schools across England and was twice dispatched by Royal ... as Oxford's Professor of Poetry. He also produced schools-focused works, including Schools and Universities on the Continent (1868) and his reports as a school insp
w York City's District 79, overseeing alternative schools, and later became the Executive Director of Teach... he school-to-prison pipeline, racism, and bias in schools.
Throughout her journey, Anderson has emphasized... o promote Anti-Bias, Anti-Racist (ABAR) values in schools and organizations, reflecting her ongoing commitm... rm initiative aimed at transforming Newark Public Schools. As the superintendent of the district, Anderson
orous econometric analysis to the question of how schools actually produce learning. The result was a serie... tly related to improvements in student learning. "Schools differ dramatically in 'quality,'" he argued, "bu... where the systems "incorporated consequences for schools and personnel," with no evidence of the predicted... of schooling: Production and efficiency in public schools. Journal of Economic Literature, 24(3), 1141–1177
sation, gentrification, mayoral control of public schools, and the systematic closure and privatisation of schools in Black and Latinx neighbourhoods — became the c... t since the 1980s — standardised testing, charter schools, school accountability, mayoral control, and mark... failure — attributing it to individual teachers, schools, and communities rather than to the political and
evidence-based reform in education, arguing that schools should adopt curricula and pedagogies only when t... rary practice of structured peer learning in K–12 schools.
**1. Shared group goals:** Team success depends... e-school reform model for high-poverty elementary schools that embodies Slavin's conviction that disadvanta... eachers. SFA has been implemented in thousands of schools and evaluated through numerous quasi-experimental
