| Mayoral Control of the New York City Schools 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Rogers, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0387711414 ISBN-13: 9780387711416 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2008 Annotation: Throughout the last forty years, the New York City public school system has changed its governance style a number of times. Through the switch from centralized to decentralized to mayoral governance, New York has been an example (for good and bad) that many other large cities parallel or follow. This Book focuses on the political dynamics of the governing overhaul and how the management styles of Mayor Bloomberg and School Chancellor Klein affected its design and implementation in the Mayor??'s first term (which ends at the beginning of next year). But to be clear ??? This is not a New York City phenomena. Mayoral governance is happening in other large cities, which is stimulated in large part by business leaders, big city mayors, and states concerned about how the schools have contributed to the declining global competitiveness of the U.S. Economy and to continued social and economic problems of inner cities. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Education | Administration - General - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 379 |
| LCCN: 2008938909 |
| Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (0.70 lbs) 134 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a book about the ambitious reform strategy known as mayoral control ini- ated to transform the dysfunctional system of urban education in the United States. I use the term dysfunctional to refer to the inability of urban school districts over the past 50 years to reduce the learning gap between poor students and their middle class peers, despite a host of reform efforts including desegregation, compensatory programs, and decentralization. Since the mid-1990s, the idea of mayoral control has generated considerable interest. Several large cities have introduced it such as Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, and Washington (Henig and Rich 2004; Wong et al. 2007). Although the latter have completed a quantitative study of mayoral control's impact on student performance in over 100 cities, a case study of the New York experience nevertheless illuminates the capacity of this tool for transforming urban education. Because of the size of the NYC system - roughly 1.2 million students - and its economic, social, and ethnic diversity, it faces the myriad problems of urban edu- tion writ large that impede efforts to implement change in these schools. |