School Reform Behind the Scenes

This ground-breaking volume provides a detailed glimpse of the individual workings of these influential organizations and, more importantly, how they combined efforts to uncover the craft of school reform, what teachers, administrators, and staff developers actually do to provoke and support change. Through personal interviews with Janet Whitla, James Comer, Howard Gardner, Theodore Sizer, and others, you will hear the voices of renowned reformers telling another side of the school reform story to complement the policy side. It's about networks of people working behind the scenes, working closely with teachers and schools over many years. This honest account, by reformers on the "inside," is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand American school reform at the end of the twentieth century.McDonald, Joseph P. is the author of 'School Reform Behind the Scenes' with ISBN 9780807739266 and ISBN 080773926X.