Product Description: This timely volume examines one of the nation's largest and most promising urban school reform initiatives, Project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams). This extraordinary program, originally designed for state-level application in Texas, has been successfully adapted to many other locations across the United States...read more

Product Description: This timely volume examines one of the nation's largest and most promising urban school reform initiatives, Project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams). This extraordinary program, originally designed for state-level application in Texas, has been successfully adapted to many other locations across the United States...read more

Product Description: "Making the Most of Middle School" begins by explaining what adolescents need and what makes them tick. The aim is to empower parents to advocate for the very best education for their children. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Reports on the progress of a public school reform initiative in Ohio that aims to determine how to meet higher academic standards, change a city school's adverse public image, and counteract the effects of urban poverty.

Product Description: Making Change provides an inside look at one of the most radical school reform initiatives that our nation has ever witnessed. In 1990, Kentucky took the unprecedented step of declaring its educational system "unconstitutional" and ratified the Kentucky Education Reform Act-creating a model of education reform considered the best in the land...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)