Putting the pieces together: Leadership for change in low-performing urban schools

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 670-693

  Orr, Margaret Terry ^a   Berg, Barbara ^b   Shore, Rima ^a   Meier, Ellen ^c  

^a Bank Street College ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

Author keywords

Accountability; Change; Leadership; Low performing schools; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549120625     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124508324018     Document Type: Article

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