Why School Boards Matter
Reclaiming the Heart of American Education and Democracy
$71.73
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2025
Summary
How school boards are uniquely positioned to strengthen our public education system and our democracy.
In Virginia, a contentious school board meeting led to an arrest and trespassing summons. In Utah, eleven people were charged with disorderly conduct after a board meeting turned chaotic. Not long ago, school boards conducted mundane district business. Understudied and underreported, they were an afterthought of centrally driven education reform efforts. Now, across blue, purple, and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262552721 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262552728 |
| Author: | Scott R. Levy |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“Thoughtful, earnest, well-researched… Levy offers a dozen worthy suggestions for improving the functioning as well as the span of control of local school boards: curbing state and federal interference, recruiting stronger candidates to run, providing better training for those who win, improving relations with the superintendent, and much more.”
—Education Next
Scott R. Levy
Scott Levy is Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has been elected four times to a local public school board in Westchester County, NY, and has served as president of a regional school boards association. He has also served as chairman of a children’s hospital and Executive Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. He spent two decades as an investment banker advising corporate boards and senior executives.
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