Chasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public Sc... - 9781682534540

Harvard Educational Publishing Group

Chasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public SchoolsAuthor(s): Larry Cuban\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group, United States\nImprint: Harvard Educational Publishing Group\nISBN-13: 9781682534540, 978-1682534540\nSynopsis\nEminent historian and educator Larry Cuban provides a thorough examination of, and challenge to, past and present definitions of what constitutes educational success in the US. Cuban argues that in the history of American education, standards of achievement and inadequacy - as well as the reform efforts issuing from them - have been neither stable nor consistent. Nor are these standards untainted by political considerations. Rather, schools thrive or decline based on a variety of factors, including social and political dynamics, leadership in school districts and communities, and policy improvisations.\n\nChasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public Schools features profiles of two California high schools.