School Reform
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What Next?
Educational Innovation and Philadelphia’s School of the Future
Edited by Mary Cullinane and Frederick M. Hess
What Next? offers a detailed study of the School of the Future's first three years (2006–2009) revealing what the School of the Future can teach us about high school redesign, public-private partnerships, and the use of technology in school reform.
Strategic Priorities for School Improvement
No. 6 in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight Series
Edited by Caroline T. Chauncey, foreword by Robert B. Schwartz
Strategic Priorities for School Improvement presents a collection of seminal articles on standards and assessment; using data to improve learning; recruiting and retaining great teachers and leaders; and turning around failing schools.
Against the Odds
Insights from One District's Small School Reform
Larry Cuban, Gary Lichtenstein, Arthur Evenchik, Martin Tombari, and Kristen Pozzoboni
Against the Odds offers an in-depth look at the Mapleton, Colorado, school district’s transformation of two traditional high schools into seven small schools, each enrolling fewer than four hundred students.
Improving Struggling Schools
A Developmental Approach to Intervention
D. Brent Stephens, foreword by Michael Fullan
Improving Struggling Schools draws on a blend of case studies and the emerging body of research on failing schools to identify patterns in the challenges they face.
Key Elements of Observing Practice
A Data Wise DVD and Facilitator’s Guide
Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth A. City, and Marcia K. Russell
Based on Data Wise and Data Wise in Action, Key Elements of Observing Practice offers insight into one of the most challenging steps in capturing data about school performance: observing and analyzing instructional practice.
How to Change 5000 Schools
A Practical and Positive Approach for Leading Change at Every Level
Ben Levin
In How to Change 5000 Schools, Ben Levin, former deputy minister of education for the province of Ontario, draws on his experience overseeing major systemwide education reforms in Canada and England to set forth a refreshingly positive, pragmatic, and optimistic approach to leading educational change at all levels.
Learning from L.A.
Institutional Change in American Public Education
By Charles Taylor Kerchner, David J. Menefee-Libey, Laura Steen Mulfinger, and Stephanie E. Clayton
Drawing on a four-year study of the last 40 years of education reform in Los Angeles, Learning
from L.A. captures the sweeping change in American education. It puts forth a provocative argument: while school reformers and education historians have tended to focus on the success or failure of individual initiatives, they have overlooked the fact that, over the past several decades, the institution of public education itself has been transformed.
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice
“Districts in Research and Reform” Publication Award, American Educational Research Association
So Much Reform, So Little Change
The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools
By Charles M. Payne
This frank and courageous book explores the persistence of failure in today’s urban schools. At its heart is the argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighborhoods.
The Transformation of Great American School Districts
How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education
Edited by William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth
In The Transformation of Great American School Districts, William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth argue that urban education reform can best be understood as a long process of institutional change, rather than as a series of failed projects. They examine the core assumptions that underlay the Progressive Era model of public education—apolitical governance, local control, professional hierarchy, and the logic of confidence—and show that recent developments in school governance have challenged virtually all of these assumptions.
Data Wise in Action
Stories of Schools Using Data to Improve Teaching and Learning
Edited by Kathryn Parker Boudett and Jennifer L. Steele
What does it look like when a school uses data wisely? Data Wise in Action, a new companion and sequel to our bestselling Data Wise, tells the stories of eight very different schools following the Data Wise process of using assessment results to improve teaching and learning.