It Takes a City: Getting Serious about Urban School Reform

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Mayoral takeovers of big-city public education systems are extreme measures that usually reflect an attempt to reverse the decline in quality in metropolitan educational systems. This text is a practical guide for mayors, civic leaders, school board members and involved citizens. It provides guidance on how to formulate a plan-of-action for education reform and how to deal with political opposition to change.

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"... a useful book for civic leaders and, indeed, for anyone interested in school reform.... Hill, Campbell, and Harvey have delivered on what they set out to do." E.P.L., Harvard Educational Review, 12/1/2001

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Paul T. Hill is coauthor (with Mary Beth Celio) of Fixing Urban Schools (Brookings, 1998) and (with Christing Campbell and James Harvey) of It Takes a City (Brookings, 2000). He is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a research professor at the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. Christine Campbell is a researcher at the University of Washington's Center on Re-Inventing Public Education. James Harvey is a senior fellow at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. He is also a Seattle-based consultant. A former appointee in the Carter administration, he helped develop the landmark report A Nation at Risk for the National Commission on Excellence in Education.