February 17, 2005 | Read Time: 1 minute
Making School Reform Work: New Partnerships for Real Change, edited by Paul T. Hill and James Harvey, is a discussion of how foundations and community groups can help improve public schools. Written by six scholars who study public education, the book proposes the creation of new institutions to remedy shortcomings in how schools are managed and to ensure that improvements are made. A product of the Brookings Institution’s five-year study of efforts to change how schools work, it recommends developing independent centers to track school performance, supporting “incubators” for new schools, providing resources for recruiting and retaining teachers, and establishing trusts and other innovative ways to finance schools.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; (202) 797-6258 or (800) 275-1447; fax (202) 797-2960; bibooks@brookings.edu; http://www.brookings.edu; 129 pages; $16.95.
