As Good As It Gets

What School Reform Brought to Austin

Larry Cuban

    • Introduction
    1. The Past Is Never Dead: School Reform, 1950-2000
    2. Turning Chaos into Stability, 1990-2009
    3. Reinventing the High School
    4. Assessing Austin Leadership and Reforms
    5. The Future of Austin Reform and Three-Tiered Schooling
    6. Urban District Reform Strategies, Common Errors and Assumptions
    7. What Can Be Done?
    • Acknowledgments
    • Appendices
  • Cover: As Good As It Gets
  • A photo of the author

Larry Cuban is Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford University and past president of the American Educational Research Association.