{"product_id":"becoming-good-american-schools-jeannie-oakes-9780787962241","title":"Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform","description":"\"A convincing portrait of teachers actively engaged in educational reform...offering a hopeful yet realistic vision of revitalized democracy inspired by a passion for the public good. This book is an eloquent defense of civic virtue.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eJonathan Kozol\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAmazing Grace\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSavage Inequalities\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Rich, realistic, invigorating, and scary. Any middle school educator who has been part of an effort to reform the educational process will see himself or herself in this book--as the brave risk taker, the naive visionary, the frightened frontline trooper, and the touched individual who can make a difference.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eJudy Cunningham\u003c\/b\u003e, principal, South Lake Middle School, Irvine, California\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book tells the stories of sixteen schools in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, and Vermont that sought to alter their structures and practices and become places fostering innovative ideas, caring people, principles of social justice, and democratic processes. Based on longitudinal, comparative case-study research, these accounts attest to the power of committing to public virtue and the struggle of educators to transform that commitment into changed school practice. The authors argue that better schools will come only when policy makers, educators, and citizens move beyond technical and bureaucratic reforms to engage in the same educative, socially just, caring, and participatory processes they want for schoolchildren. Those processes constitute betterment--both the means and the ends of school reform. Becoming Good American Schools is for administrators, policy makers, practitioners, and citizens who are prepared to blend inspiration and caution, idealism and skepticism in their own pursuit of good schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeannie Oakes,Karen Hunter Quartz,Steve Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0787962244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780787962241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jossey-Bass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.08w x 1.10d","brand":"Jeannie Oakes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425058537727,"sku":"9780787962241","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4280f218-75c0-4d0e-9b91-284fe28e7762.jpg?v=1761536720","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/becoming-good-american-schools-jeannie-oakes-9780787962241","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}