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For the past century, school reform has centered around political solutions. Numerous attempts have been made to improve the education of youth. The advent of neuroscience research has given educators new ways of examining conditions affecting school achievement. The list of these conditions is large. Communities seeking to improve schools need to examine biological factors which may impinge on school success.

AbstractThis chapter provides an introduction to and describes the background of the Chicago School Reform Act.

School reform politics in England and the United States over the last quarter century has revolved largely around the question of performance-based accountability. Accountability school reform in both countries has entailed standardization of curricula and assessment and the spread in the use of market mechanisms in school governance. To explain how these accountability reforms have retooled local governing institutions in ways that have reduced their autonomy and lessened their capacity to administer local school systems, this article applies the analytical framework of urban governing cycles to a comparative study of school reform politics in Bristol, England, and Boston, Massachusetts.

AbstractThis chapter examines changes in how and what children are taught in the Chicago public schools since reform legislation was enacted. The authors examine the Coalition of Essential Schools, the Paideia Program, the Algebra Project, and the Home and Hospital programs.

AbstractSchool reform has deeply affected the education and business communities in Chicago. In this chapter, three prominent Chicagoans assess reform and its impact.