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The Managerial Imperative and the Practice of Leadership in Schools

Larry Cuban

With this significant new work, Larry Cuban provides a unique and insightful perspective on the bridging of the long-standing and well-known gap between teachers and administrators. Drawing on the literature…

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Teaching History Then and Now: A Story of Stability and Change in Schools

Larry Cuban

Explores the teaching of history in American high schools during the past half-century. Drawing on his early career experience as a high school history educator and his more recent work…

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The Flight of a Butterfly or the Path of a Bullet?: Using Technology to Transform Teaching and Learning

Larry Cuban

Looks at the uses and effects of digital technologies in K-12 classrooms, exploring if and how technology has transformed teaching and learning. In particular, Larry Cuban examines forty-one classrooms across…

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Chasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public Schools

Larry Cuban

Provides a thorough examination of, and challenge to, past and present definitions of what constitutes educational success in the US. Larry Cuban argues that in the history of American education…

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Confessions of a School Reformer

Larry Cuban

Historian of education Larry Cuban reflects on education reforms and his experiences with them as a student, educator, and administrator. Interwoven with Cuban’s evaluations and remembrances are his confessions, in…

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How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Change without Reform in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990

Larry Cuban

Examining a century of university history, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old question: what is more important, teaching or research? Using two departments (history and medicine) at Stanford University as a…

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Why is it So Hard to Get Good Schools?

Larry Cuban

After almost five decades of working in and around public schools, Larry Cuban invites us to think along with him about why it is so hard to get good schools…

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Hugging the Middle: How Teachers Teach in an Era of Testing and Accountability

Larry Cuban

Focusing on three diverse school districts (Arlington, Virginia; Denver, Colorado; and Oakland, California), this book offers a portrayal of how teachers teach. It looks at a range of workable pedagogical…

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Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change without Reform in American Education

Larry Cuban

A book that explores the problematic connection between education policy and practice while pointing in the direction of a more fruitful relationship, Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice is…

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The Enduring Classroom

Larry Cuban

A groundbreaking analysis of how teachers actually teach and have taught in the past.

The quality and effectiveness of teaching are a constant subject of discussion within the profession and…

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The Enduring Classroom

Larry Cuban

A groundbreaking analysis of how teachers actually teach and have taught in the past.

The quality and effectiveness of teaching are a constant subject of discussion within the profession and…

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Chasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public Schools

Larry Cuban

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Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom

Larry Cuban

Many educators and parents argue that school computers and Internet access will improve learning and prepare students for an information- based workplace. This book contests that, when teachers are not…

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The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can’t Be Businesses

Larry Cuban

In this provocative new book, Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliche that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one…

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As Good As It Gets: What School Reform Brought to Austin

Larry Cuban

Cuban takes a richly detailed history of the Austin, Texas, school district, under Superintendent Pat Forgione, to ask the question that few politicians and school reformers want to touch: given…

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How Teachers Taught: Constancy and Change in American Classrooms, 1890-1990

Larry Cuban

In this new edition, Cuban returns to his inquiry into the history of teaching practice in the US, responds to criticisms, and incorporates the scholarship of the last decade. He…

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The Managerial Imperative and the Practice of Leadership in Schools

Larry Cuban

With this significant new work, Larry Cuban provides a unique and insightful perspective on the bridging of the long-standing and well-known gap between teachers and administrators. Drawing on the literature…

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Partners in Literacy: Schools and Libraries Building Communities Through Technology

Sondra Cuban,Larry Cuban

Exploring the differences of technology use in schools and libraries across the country, this book describes ways that these two institutions can collaborate to improve teaching and learning while building…

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The Practice of School Reform: Lessons from Two Centuries

James Nehring

Through stories of real schools - both contemporary and historical - this title provides practical advice for educators struggling for change.

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The Practice of School Reform: Lessons from Two Centuries

James Nehring

Through stories of real schools - both contemporary and historical - this title provides practical advice for educators struggling for change.

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Reconstructing the Common Good in Education: Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas

This volume explores the ongoing debates about what constitutes the common good in American public education. Critics ask, if there is a shared national purpose for education, can it be…

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Frogs into Princes: Writings on School Reform

Presents a collection of writings on urban school reform. This volume examine instructional, curricular, organizational, and governance reform in mostly poor and minority districts and schools.

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Technology, Curriculum and Professional Development: Adapting Schools to Meet the Needs of Students with Disabilities

John Woodward

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Technology, Curriculum and Professional Development: Adapting Schools to Meet the Needs of Students with Disabilities

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From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: How Scholarship Becomes Common Knowledge in Education

Jack Schneider,Larry Cuban

Why do so many promising ideas generated by education research fail to penetrate the world of classroom practice?

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Reconstructing the Common Good in Education: Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas

This volume explores the ongoing debates about what constitutes the common good in American public education. Critics ask, if there is a shared national purpose for education, can it be…

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Cutting Through the Hype: The Essential Guide to School Reform

Jane L. David,Larry Cuban

Offers balanced analyses of 23 currently popular school reform strategies, from teacher performance pay and putting mayors in charge to turnaround schools and data-driven instruction. Each chapter explains clearly and…

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Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform

David B. Tyack,Larry Cuban

The aim of this book is to document the dynamic tension between Americans’ faith in education as a panacea, and the moderate pace of change in educational practices.

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Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform

Examines an innovative approach to school district management that has been adopted by a number of urban districts in recent years: a portfolio management model, in which a central office…

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Against the Odds: Insights from One District’s Small School Reform

Larry Cuban

Offers an in-depth look at the Mapleton, Colorado, school district’s transformation of two traditional high schools into seven small schools, each enrolling fewer than four hundred students. This even-handed account…

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Hemingway, Cuba and the Cuban Works

The profound impact of Cuba on Ernest Hemingway’s life and work

Ernest Hemingway resided in Cuba longer than he lived anywhere else in the world, yet no book has been…

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