Smart Districts: Voices in Urban Education 5

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Publication Date: 
September 2004

This issue of Voices in Urban Education features leading-edge perspectives on how to transform a school community into a “smart district” – one that is part of the solution to what ails public education, not part of the problem. How can districts transform out-of-date structural models and use data to become "best-in-class"? Why do districts need to rethink the way teachers are assigned to schools? How did a citywide “community covenant” and a grassroots movement in a low-income urban neighborhood transform two districts' schools?