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