Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Context of the Study, Hugh Mehan, Gordon C. Chang; Chapter 3 Pushing Back against the Power-Preserving Tendencies of Bureaucracies; Chapter 4 Trying to Bend the Bars of the Iron Cage, Hugh Mehan, Makeba Jones; Chapter 5 Changes in Students’ Aspirations and Conduct, Hugh Mehan, Season S. Mussey; Chapter 6 Conclusions;

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Hugh Mehan, Gordon C. Chang, Makeba Jones, Season S. Mussey

Reviews

"In The Front Door" is a must read. Few American scholars have done as much as Bud Mehan, the lead author, to build real schools that work for low-income children. This book tells the story of how he and an imaginative team of educators created two ground-breaking charters, Preuss and Gompers, and restructured Lincoln High School in San Diego. Preuss has been near the top of my annual list of the most challenging high schools for many years, even though 100 percent of its students are low-income. How did that happen? Mehan and his co-authors explain the forces they harnessed, and how their work could be duplicated around the country.
—Jay Matthews, The Washington Post