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In this work, David L. Kirp challenges the conventional wisdom about public schools and education reform in America through an in-depth look at Union City, New Jersey's high-performing urban school district. In this study, Kirp reveals Union's city's revolutionary secret: running an exemplary school system doesn't demand heroics, just hard and steady work.

School improvement programs --- Hispanic American children --- Educational equalization --- Education --- Educational inequality --- Equal education --- Equal educational opportunity --- Equalization, Educational --- Children, Hispanic American --- Improvement programs, School --- Instructional improvement programs --- Programs, School improvement --- School self-improvement programs --- Affirmative action programs in education --- Children --- School management and organization --- Aims and objectives --- Educational equality --- Educational equity --- Equality of education --- Equity, Educational --- Inequality, Educational --- Opportunity, Equal educational

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Kirp provides a guide to this quiet movement. He crouches in classrooms where committed teachers engage lively four-year-olds, and reveals the findings of an extraordinary longitudinal study that shows the life-changing impact of preschool.

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"The authors describe and analyze how four states--Michigan, West Virginia, Washington, and North Carolina--have built early education systems that positively affect student outcomes, providing a much-needed, richly detailed look at how states can design, fund, and manage exemplary programs"--

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