"This book exposes the complexities and realities facing urbanness and urban schools that are inadequately funded and denigrated, along with students who contin

Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore examines the role of the contemporary public school as an instrument of urban design. The central case study in thi

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

For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system—the district—has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of suc

This timely book exposes the complexities and realities facing urbanness and urban schools that are inadequately funded and denigrated, along with students who