Leading Change in City Schools: Urban Education Reform in Action

Harvard FAS

Public education has long strived to be society’s “great equalizer.” Yet, throughout its history, the American education system has failed to deliver on this promise. In this course, we will examine specific high-profile and popular system-level reform initiatives aimed at improving urban public schools. We will focus on two common reforms–improving teacher quality and expanding school choice–and explore why and how these reforms have taken shape across three focal cities–New York City,…