Making School Reform Work
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Making School Reform Work
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Author : Paul T. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2004-09-30
Making School Reform Work written by Paul T. Hill and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-30 with Education categories.
Bringing change to our public school system is hard, and the current system of education governance creates barriers that can make that reform even harder. Here six authorities in public education discuss how local philanthropies can overcome them even if school districts cannot. Making School Reform Work identifies new institutions that can be created by foundations and civic groups to remedy deficiencies in local school governance, formulate bold reforms, and guarantee implementation. These institutions include incubators for starting new schools, independent data analysis centers, public-private partnerships for recruitment and training of school leaders, and new ways of funding and managing school facilities. The contributors are Sarah Brooks (Carleton College), Michael DeArmond (University of Washington), Marguerite Roza (University of Washington), and Abigail Winger (Milwaukee consultant).
Making School Reform Work
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Author : Robert J. Sternberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Making School Reform Work written by Robert J. Sternberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Education categories.
Discusses school reform in terms first of the school wanting to change.
Making School Reform Happen
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Author : Pamela Bullard
language : en
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Release Date : 1993
Making School Reform Happen written by Pamela Bullard and has been published by Allyn & Bacon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Educational change categories.
Here at last is a book with a vision - not of what's wrong in American schools or what should be done to improve them - but about what is actually being accomplished right now in schools across the country that are committed to teaching all children. This is a book about what works... and about the positive changes that take place when everyone involved in children's education joins ranks to create schools committed to teaching so that children learn. It is an important book - providing both a roadmap and a source of inspiration for parents, teachers, school administrators, Boards of Education, and those who care about children and their education. The success stories recounted here are amazing - test scores that catapult the performance of a school district from the bottom of the barrel to well above average performance in just a few years... schools once plagued by vandalism and disorderly students now beehives of educational activity and enthusiasm... parents who have become involved because they appreciate the welcoming atmosphere of their children's school. The Effective School movement began with an article published by Ron Edmonds in 1979 and has spread to dozens of motivated school systems throughout the U.S. The core of the program is seven "correlates" - guiding principles that underlie the Effective Schools improvement process. At the heart of this philosophy is the conviction that all children, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or gender, can learn... and the commitment to creating schools that challenge and nurture and get results. What kind of community can create this kind of school? Any community that has the will to make the necessary changes, say educators whohave succeeded. Although the changes aren't always easy, the results are undeniable. There are shining examples of effective schools across the country, from the Spanish Harlem area of New York City... to the schools of Junction City, Kansas, with its many mobile children of the military... the suburban schools of Frederick County Maryland... and the once-neglected Hollibrook Elementary School in Spring Branch, Texas. The stories of schools and school systems that have implemented an Effective Schools program are told here in the participant's own words. To this account, the authors interviewed over 450 people - teachers, parents, administrators, psychologists, government officials, and scores of others - and visited dozens of schools across the country - urban, suburban, and rural. The result is a book that shows exactly what's involved in initiating, implementing, and making educational reform work.
Battling The Hamster Wheel Tm
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Author : Grace Sammon
language : en
Publisher: Corwin Press
Release Date : 2005-10-19
Battling The Hamster Wheel Tm written by Grace Sammon and has been published by Corwin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-19 with Education categories.
Looking for effective strategies and best practices to break the cycle of ineffective school reform implementation? The author takes a sobering look at the state of high school reform and identifies the elements that keep us "running in place", rather than making progress on a road to success. This research-based resource-with built-in book study and facilitator’s guide-arms readers with the skills to establish and sustain the critical elements for schools' success: Demonstrating high expectations and a vision that matches it Building capacity for ultimate success Thinking small, dreaming big Engaging in legitimate community support Strong, sustained, and shared leadership
Making Reform Work
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Author : Robert Zemsky
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2009-08-11
Making Reform Work written by Robert Zemsky and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-11 with Education categories.
Making Reform Work is a practical narrative of ideas that begins by describing who is saying what about American higher educationùwho's angry, who's disappointed, and why. Most of the pleas for changing American colleges and universities that originate outside the academy are lamentations on a small number of too often repeated themes. The critique from within the academy focuses on issues principally involving money and the power of the market to change colleges and universities. Sandwiched between these perspectives is a public that still has faith in an enterprise that it really doesn't understand. Robert Zemsky, one of a select group of scholars who participated in Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings's 2005 Commission on the Future of Higher Education, signed off on the commission's report with reluctance. In Making Reform Work he presents the ideas he believes should have come from that group to forge a practical agenda for change. Zemsky argues that improving higher education will require enlisting faculty leadership, on the one hand, and, on the other, a strategy for changing the higher education system writ large. Directing his attention from what can't be done to what can be done, Zemsky provides numerous suggestions. These include a renewed effort to help students' performance in high schools and a stronger focus on the science of active learning, not just teaching methods. He concludes by suggesting a series of dislodging eventsùfor example, making a three-year baccalaureate the standard undergraduate degree, congressional rethinking of student aid in the wake of the loan scandal, and a change in the rules governing endowmentsùthat could break the gridlock that today holds higher education reform captive. Making Reform Work offers three rules for successful college and university transformation: don't vilify, don't play games, and come to the table with a well-thought-out strategy rather than a sharply worded lamentation.
Making Schools Work
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Author : Barbara Bruns
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2011
Making Schools Work written by Barbara Bruns and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Education categories.
"This book is about the threats to education quality in the developing world that cannot be explained by lack of resources. It reviews the observed phenomenon of service delivery failures in public education: cases where programs and policies increase the inputs to education but do not produce effective services where it counts - in schools and classrooms. It documents what we know about the extent and costs of such failures across low and middle-income countries. And it further develops the conceptual model posited in the World Development Report 2004: that a root cause of low-quality and inequitable public services - not only in education - is the weak accountability of providers to both their supervisors and clients.The central focus of the book, however, is a new story. It is that developing countries are increasingly adopting innovative strategies to attack these problems. Drawing on new evidence from 22 rigorous impact evaluations across 11 developing countries, this book examines how three key strategies to strengthen accountability relationships in developing country school systems have affected school enrollment, completion and student learning. The book reviews the motivation and global context for education reforms aimed at strengthening provider accountability. It provides the rationally and synthesizes the evidence on the impacts of three key lines of reform: (1) policies that use the power of information to strengthen the ability of clients of education services (students and their parents) to hold providers accountable for results; (2) policies that promote school-based management?that is increase schools? autonomy to make key decisions and control resources, often empowering parents to play a larger role; (3) teacher incentives reforms that specifically aim at making teachers more accountable for results, either by making contract tenure dependent on performance, or offering performance-linked pay. The book summarizes the lessons learned, draws cautious conclusions about possible complementarities across different types of accountability-focused reforms if they are implemented in tandem, considers issues related to scaling up reform efforts and the political economy of reform, and suggests directions for future work."
Strong Performers And Successful Reformers In Education World Class How To Build A 21st Century School System
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Author : Schleicher Andreas
language : en
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Release Date : 2018-05-29
Strong Performers And Successful Reformers In Education World Class How To Build A 21st Century School System written by Schleicher Andreas and has been published by OECD Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-29 with categories.
Andreas Schleicher - initiator of PISA and an international authority on education policy - offers a unique perspective on education reform.
Making Education Work
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Making Education Work written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Education categories.
Teachers And Crisis
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Author : Dennis Carlson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-12
Teachers And Crisis written by Dennis Carlson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-12 with Education categories.
Advocates of the ‘back-to-basics’ movement argue that a basic skills programme ensures that students are educated to a minimum level of literacy required to enter the labour force. Critics charge that these efforts only increase school bureaucracy and undermine teachers’ autonomy in the classroom. First published in 1992, this book moves beyond the rhetoric surrounding the basic skills debate by providing a thorough yet critical examination of urban education, urban school reform, and teachers’ work culture. Beginning with a sparkling theoretical discussion of the problems and pitfalls of back-to-basics reform efforts, author Dennis Carlson argues persuasively that the movement’s exclusive emphasis on functional literacy skills rather than higher-order thinking assures that students will remain on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. He then proceeds with an empirical study of two urban high school districts in which he documents the latent effects of back-to-basics on teachers’ work lives as well as staff-administration clashes over efforts to implement restructuring programmes. This book offers a sensible and sophisticated treatment of some of the important issues facing urban education and will be of great interest to anyone working in Education.
Good Schools Real Schools
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Author : Dean Fink
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 2000
Good Schools Real Schools written by Dean Fink and has been published by Teachers College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Education categories.
Literature on school reform tends to concentrate on the initiation and implementation of reform. This work seeks to provide change agents, policy makers, and students of educational change with advice on the sustaining of change and the scaling up of change to more systemic reform.