Charting Chicago School Reform

Anthony Bryk, David Kerbow, Sharon Rollow, John Easton

• Prologue -- Framing Our Analysis: Locating Chicago School Reform Within an Institutional Change Perspective -- Politics as a Lever for Organizational Change -- Catalyzing Basic Organizational Change at the Building Level -- Instructional Change -- Testing the Basic Logic of the Chicago School Reform Act -- A Closer Look at Actively Restructuring Schools -- Major Lessons from the Initiating Phase of Chicago School Reform