Breaking Through: Transforming Urban School Districts: 1st (First) Edition

by John Simmons

Is it possible to fundamentally improve the daily workings of the urbanclassroom in less than seven years? According to John Simmons, itwill take a revolution in the way that leaders of urban school systemsthink and operate, from the classroom to the boardroom. In thisambitious volume, Simmons and a stellar group of contributors, including Linda Darling-Hammond, Richard Elmore, Michael Fullan, Charlotte Danielson, Susan Moore Johnson, Adam Urbanski, AlanOdden, and Valerie Lee, bring the best current research to bear on arange of critical topics, creating a practical framework thatsuperintendents and their teams can use to transform their big-cityschool systems into true learning communitie

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First published January 1, 2005