Reinventing America's schools : creating a 21st century education system
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Osborne, David, 1951-
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New York, New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
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From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education.In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.

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xiii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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9781632869913, 1632869918

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Includes bibliographical references (page 333-394) and index.
Description
From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland.

Table of Contents

New Orleans: Katrina wipes the slate clean
A tale of two systems: Education reform in Washington, D.C.
Denver: An elected school board adopts a 21st century strategy
The revolution spreads
The keys to success. APPENDIX A. Measuring school performance in New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Denver
APPENDIX B. What we should learn from Denver's experience with performance pay
APPENDIX C. Other districts pursuing 21st century strategies
Endnotes.

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An advocate for charter schools proposes bold changes in public education.A senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, Osborne (The Coming, 2017, etc.) is a proponent of decentralization in government, including oversight of schools. Director of the Reinventing America's Schools Project, he has amassed a great deal of data about charter schools. The book is replete with statistics, mostly defending charters' successes; nevertheless, despite his infectious enthusiasm, he recognizes thorny problems. He focuses mainly on three cities: New Orleans, which re-created its school system after Hurricane Katrina; Washington, D.C., led by its controversial chancellor, Michelle Rhee; and Denver, whose elected school board instituted charter schools and "innovation schools" throughout its districts. Osborne asserts that overbearing school bureaucracies, insisting on a one-size-fits-all model, along with recalcitrant teachers' unions, have undermined public education. Schools must decentralize decision-making, offer enhanced choices for students and families, give school leaders "the freedom to mold school cultures" and hire and fire teachers, and create measures of school performance. Assessment emerges as a complicated issue, since each charter school is accountable "to its own standards." A charter, Osborne argues, "should be a performance contract, which spells out what the school intends to accomplish, how it will be measured, and what will happen if the school fails to achieve its goals." What has happened in some cases is that schools have closed when students withdrew and teachers quit out of disappointment or frustration. The author aims to influence state and city administrators, school boards, and federal policymakers, with a nod to ways that parents can make their concerns heard. He offers myriad school models, such as "no-excuses" schools, with longer school days and years; schools that focus on science and technology; athletics-intensive schools; single-sex schools; schools offering intense therapeutic help; and schools that seek to preserve a particular ethnic heritage. Osborne, however, does not show concern about the cultural consequences of such specialized education. A fervent manifesto for school diversity and autonomy. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Osborne, D. (2017). Reinventing America's schools: creating a 21st century education system . Bloomsbury.

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Osborne, David, 1951-. 2017. Reinventing America's Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education System. New York, New York: Bloomsbury.

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Osborne, David, 1951-. Reinventing America's Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education System New York, New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.

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Osborne, D. (2017). Reinventing america's schools: creating a 21st century education system. New York, New York: Bloomsbury.

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Osborne, David. Reinventing America's Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education System Bloomsbury, 2017.

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