"That school had become all about show": Image making and the ironies of constructing a good urban school

Urban Education

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-393

  Niesz, Tricia ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability movement; Impression management; Market based reform movement; Technical rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950658480     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085908322691     Document Type: Article

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