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educationr-1995	O'Reilly, Sissi	Review of American school reform: What works, what fails, and why	2016	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1978	73	34	x + 199 ISBN: 978-0-226-12472-8 Reviewed by Sissi Dinh O’Reilly University of Texas, Austin United States American School Reform: What Works, What Fails, and Why provides an in-depth analysis of school reform implementation at Annenberg Challenge schools in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco using the theory of action space through investigations of professional capacity, civic capacity and funding. Using the theories of urban school reform that investigate civic capacities within communities, economic and fiscal contributions of federal funds, and professional effectiveness of leadership, McDonald et al. weigh the effects of belief systems, political influences, and cultural influences on the inputs, throughputs, and outputs, and eventual collapse, of the school reform efforts on schools and districts.	cache/educationr-1995.pdf	txt/educationr-1995.txt