"I Don't Want Your Nasty Pot of Gold": Urban School Climate and Public Policy

Charles M. Payne

IPR working papers from Institute for Policy Resarch at Northwestern University

Abstract: Few of the current major efforts to improve urban schools adequately appreciate the extent to which the problematic social climate of urban schools can undermine the implementation of even very good ideas. Thus, program after program comes and goes with little lasting impact. This paper uses ethnographic fieldwork to illustrate the ways dysfunctional relationships among teachers, parents and administrators can interfere with the actual implementation of reform programs even when all parties are substantially in agreement about goals and means. The operating assumptions underlying several current reform efforts are contrasted with the day-to-day realities of schools.

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