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Reinventing Public Education(Updated)
How Contracting Can Transform America's Schools (Rand Research Study)
by Paul Thomas Hill, James W. Guthrie, Lawrence C. Pierce
Paperback, 275 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-33652-7, ISBN: 0-226-33652-2

"A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose an innovative approach to solving the problems of our school system and find a middle ground between these extremes. Reinventing Public Educa ..."






Fixing Urban Schools(1st Edition)
by Paul Thomas Hill, Mary Beth Celio, Joe L. Wheeler
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1998 by Brookings Institution Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-3613-4, ISBN: 0-8157-3613-4

"Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one. Cleveland, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., are struggling to recreate their failed school systems, and many more cities are likely to follow. City leaders need more than new superintendents. They need stable reform strategies strong enough to move an entrenched system. Unfortunately, it is not ..."






Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings(1st Edition)
by Thomas Hill Green, Paul Harris, John Morrow, Paul L. Harris, J. Marrow
Paperback, 396 Pages, Published 1986 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-27810-2, ISBN: 0-521-27810-4






Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education
by Paul Thomas Hill, Robin J. Lake, Mary Beth Celio
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Brookings Institution Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-0266-5, ISBN: 0-8157-0266-3

"Charter schools are among the most debated and least understood phenomena in American education today. At the heart of these matters is a contested question of accountability. To survive, charter schools must make and keep promises about what students will experience and learn under their purview. However, unlike public schools, charter schools do not rely exclusively on their relationship with school districts. They must also look to p ..."






Choice with Equity(1st Edition)
An Assessment of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
by Paul Thomas Hill, David E. Campbell, Paul T. Hill
Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2002 by Hoover Institution Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8179-3892-5, ISBN: 0-8179-3892-3

"Participation in a National School Voucher Program Paul E. Peterson, David E. Campbell, and Martin R. West Among the most controversial issues in the heated public debate over school vouchers is the question of which families are most likely to leave the public sector and enroll their children in private schools if given the opportunity. Critics assert that the parents most likely to opt for vouchers will be those who are already m ..."






Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education(2nd Edition)
by Paul Thomas Hill, Robin J. Lake, Mary Beth Celio
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Brookings Institution Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-0267-2, ISBN: 0-8157-0267-1

"Charter schools are among the most debated and least understood phenomena in American education today. At the heart of these matters is a contested question of accountability. To survive, charter schools must make and keep promises about what students will experience and learn under their purview. However, unlike public schools, charter schools do not rely exclusively on their relationship with school districts. They must also look to p ..."






It Takes a City(Updated)
Getting Serious about Urban School Reform
by James F. Harvey, Paul Thomas Hill, Christine Campbell, Carol Reed, Paul Herdman, Janet Looney, Lawrence Pierce, Abigail Winger
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Brookings Institution Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-3639-4, ISBN: 0-8157-3639-8

"Mayoral takeovers of big city public education systems are desperation measures. After decades of decline in school quality, something must be done to make sure city children learn enough to function as adults in American society. But how can city leaders make a real difference?This book, a sequel to Fixing Urban Schools (Brookings, 1998), is a practical guide for mayors, civic leaders, school board members, and involved citizens. Based ..."






Making School Reform Work
New Partnerships for Real Change
by James Harvey, Paul T. Hill, Paul Thomas Hill, Brookings Institution Press, Jr. James Harvey
Paperback, 129 Pages, Published 2004 by Brookings Institution Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-3641-7, ISBN: 0-8157-3641-X

"Bringing change to our public school system is hard, and the current system of education governance creates barriers that can make that reform even harder. Here six authorities in public education discuss how local philanthropies can overcome them even if school districts cannot. Making School Reform Work identifies new institutions that can be created by foundations and civic groups to remedy deficiencies in local school governance, fo ..."






The aggregate effects of federal education programs
by Jackie Kimbrough, Paul Thomas Hill
48 Pages, Published 1981 by Rand
ISBN-13: 978-0-8330-0363-8, ISBN: 0-8330-0363-1

"The purpose of this study was to investigate the aggregate effects of the many federal and state requirements that school districts must implement. It assessed whether the combination of all those requirements produced unintended outcomes."






Mechanisms for the implementation of civil rights guarantees by educational institutions
by Paul Thomas Hill, Richard A. Rettig, Rand Corporation
58 Pages, Published 1980 by Rand
ISBN-13: 978-0-8330-0175-7, ISBN: 0-8330-0175-2






Professional Papers in American Politics
A Theory of Political Coalitions in Simple and Policy-Making Situations
by Paul Thomas Hill
Paperback, 46 Pages, Published 1974 by Sage Publications Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-0306-7, ISBN: 0-8039-0306-5






High Schools With Character
by Paul Thomas Hill, Gail E. Foster, Tamar Gendler, Dave Hill
Paperback, 97 Pages, Published 1940 by Rand
ISBN-13: 978-0-8330-1089-6, ISBN: 0-8330-1089-1

"Hill, Paul T., Arthur E. Wise, and Leslie Shapiro, Educational Progress: Cities Mobilize to Improve Their Schools, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif., R-3711-JSM/CSTP, January 1989. Hoffer, Thomas, Andrew M. Greeley, and James ..."






Strife and Progress
Portfolio Strategies for Managing Urban Schools
by Paul Thomas Hill, Christine Campbell, Betheny Gross
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2012 by Brookings Institution Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-2427-8, ISBN: 0-8157-2427-6

"Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing--and stubborn--public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the "portfolio strategy" for providing urban education--its rationale, implementation, and results. Under the portfolio strategy, cities use anything that works, indifferent to ..."






Learning as We Go(1st Edition)
Why School Choice is Worth the Wait (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
by Paul Thomas Hill
Hardcover, 138 Pages, Published 2010 by Hoover Institution Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8179-1014-3, ISBN: 0-8179-1014-X

"Why haven't schools of choice yet achieved a broader appeal? Publicly funded school choice programs--charter schools in forty-three states and vouchers in a few localities--have for the most part been qualified successes. Yet the rhetoric of choice supporters promised much more effective schools and an era of innovation that has not come to pass. In Learning as We Go: Why School Choice Is Worth the Wait, Paul T. Hill examines the real-w ..."






Reinventing Public Education
How Contracting Can Transform America's Schools
by Paul Thomas Hill, James W. Guthrie, Lawrence C. Pierce
275 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-33653-4, ISBN: 0-226-33653-0

"How Contracting Can Transform America's Schools Paul Hill, Lawrence C. Pierce , James W. Guthrie. Paul T. Hill is research professor in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington and Director of the Joint University of Washington-RAND Program on Reinventing Public Education. Lawrence C. Pierce is a senior staff member of the Program on Reinventing Public Education and former dean of the College of Educatio ..."






Making School Reform Work
New Partnerships for Real Change
by Paul Thomas Hill, James Harvey
129 Pages, Published 2004 by Brookings Institution Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9667-1, ISBN: 0-8157-9667-6

"Roza, A Matter of Definition. 16. Bradley Portin, Paul Schneider, Michael de Armond, and Lauren Gundlach, Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship (Seattle: Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2003) . 17. Is There a Shortage of Qualified Candidates for ... Planning Process: Who Shall Bell the Cat? (Santa Monica: Rand, 1987); and Paul T. Hill, Thomas K. Glennon, and Susan J. Bodilly, Termination of Air ..."






Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education
by Paul Thomas Hill, Robin J. Lake, Mary Beth Celio
160 Pages, Published 2002 by Brookings Institution Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-9858-3, ISBN: 0-8157-9858-X

"For data and argument on different sides of these issues, see Amy Stuart Wells and others, "Charter Schools as Postmodern Paradox: ... American Prospect (July -August 1998); Bruce Fuller and others, School Choice: Abundant Hopes, Scarce Evidence of Results (Berkeley, Calif.: Policy Analysis for California Education, 1999); and Chester E. Finn, Bruno V. Manno, and Gregg Vanourek, Charter Schools ..."






It Takes a City
Getting Serious about Urban School Reform
by Paul Thomas Hill, James Harvey, Christine Campbell
Published 2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-585-36982-2, ISBN: 0-585-36982-8






Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools (New Frontiers in Education)
by June Ahn, Larry Angel, Lydia Rainey, Julian R. Betts, Paul T. Hill, Dominic J. Brewer, Robin J. Lake, Laura S. Hamilton, Jeffrey R. Henig, Patrick J. Mcewan, Robert B. Olsen, Brian M. Stecher, Y. Emily Tang, Andrew C. Zau, Hill/Betts, Paul Thomas Hill
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2010 by R&L Education
ISBN-13: 978-1-60709-359-6, ISBN: 1-60709-359-6

"Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools, everyone was surprised by how difficult it was to assess charter school performance. The first part of this book focuses on how to imp ..."






Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools (New Frontiers in Education)
by Contributor-Larry Angel, Contributor-June Ahn, Contributor-Lydia Rainey, Julian R. Betts, Paul T. Hill, Robin J. Lake, Patrick J. Mcewan, Dominic J. Brewer, Laura S. Hamilton, Jeffrey R. Henig, Robert B. Olsen, Brian M. Stecher, Y. Emily Tang, Andrew C. Zau, Hill/Betts, Paul Thomas Hill
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2010 by R&L Education
ISBN-13: 978-1-60709-358-9, ISBN: 1-60709-358-8

"Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools, everyone was surprised by how difficult it was to assess charter school performance. The first part of this book focuses on how to imp ..."



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