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  Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership

  Edited by Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson

  Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of organizational coherence: aligning organizational design, human capital management, resource allocation, and accountability and performance improvement systems to support an overarching strategy.

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  How to Manage Urban School Districts

  Stacey Childress, Richard Elmore, and Allen Grossman

  One of the biggest management challenges anywhere is how to improve student performance in urban public schools in the United States. There has been no shortage of proposed solutions. Although many approaches have created positive changes in individual schools, they have failed to produce a single high-performing urban school system. In this article, the authors, who are members of Harvard University's Public Education Leadership Project, explain why.

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  Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools

  Stacey M. Childress, Denis P. Doyle, and David A. Thomas, with a foreword by David Gergen

  Leading for Equity tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformation—in less than a decade—into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement. In chapters organized around six core themes, the authors lay out the essential elements of MCPS’s success.

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