Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- And Winning: Lessons from Houston

Don McAdams provides a fast moving account of successful reform in the nation's seventh largest school district. With tact and wisdom, the author shows that school reform is seldom about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Rather, it is mostly about power, status, and money. This great story is filled with conflict and surprising turns of fate. No one interested in politics, governance, and management of urban school districts can afford to miss it.