“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Scho

In 1988, the Chicago public school system decentralized, granting parents and communities significant resources and authority to reform their schools in dramati

What does it mean to teach for human dignity? How does one do so? This practical book shows how the leaders at four urban public schools used a process called D

The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school