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Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform
Jeannie Oakes, Karen Hunter Quartz, Steve Ryan, Martin Lipton
ISBN: 978-0-7879-4023-2
Hardcover
432 pages
December 1999
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SITUATING THE STRUGGLE.

The Struggle to Become Good Schools.

Cultural Contradictions.

FOUR CULTURAL STRUGGLES.

Becoming Educative.

Becoming Socially Just.

Becoming Caring.

Becoming Participatory.

BECOMING BETTER.

Struggling to Scale Up.

Struggling in the Reform Mill.

A Passion for the Public Good.

Appendix: Studying the Technical, Normative, and Political Dimensions of School Reform.
 
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