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The article was published on 1980-06-12 and is currently open access. It has received 50 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Effective schools & Academic standards.read more
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A New Era of School Reform: Going Where the Research Takes Us.
Abstract: As the title indicates, the central thesis of this monograph is that educators stand at the dawn of a new era of school reform. This is not because a new decade, century, and millennium are beginning, although these certainly are noteworthy events. Rather, it is because the cumulative research of the last 40 years provides some clear guidance about the characteristics of effective schools and effective teaching. Knowledge of these characteristics provides educators with possibilities for reform unlike those available at any other time in history. In fact, one of the primary goals of this monograph is to synthesize that research and translate it into principles and generalizations educators can use to effect substantive school reform. The chapters that follow attempt to synthesize and interpret the extant research on the impact of schooling on students' academic achievement. The interval of four decades has been selected because this is the period during which the effects of schooling have been systematically studied. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the struggle against poverty, racial and unequal educational opportunity became more intense. Starting just after 1960, the effort to deal with these problems dominated domestic legislative action.. .. Attempts to document and remedy the problems of unequal educational opportunity, particularly as they related to minority-group children, provided the major impetus for school-effectiveness studies. In fact, major societal efforts to address the problems of inequality were centered on the educational sphere. (p. 11) It was in this context that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a cornerstone of President Johnson's " war on poverty, " specified that the Commissioner of Education should conduct a nationwide survey of the availability of educational opportunity. The wording of the mandate revealed an assumption on the part of the Act's authors that educational opportunity was not equal for all members of American society: The Commissioner shall conduct a survey and make a report to the President and Congress.. .concerning the lack of availability of equal educational opportunities [emphasis added] for individuals by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin in public institutions. Madaus, Airasian, and Kellaghan explain: " It is not clear why Congress ordered the commissioner to conduct the survey, although the phrase 'concerning the lack of availability of educational opportunities' implies that Congress believed that inequalities in opportunities did exist, and that documenting these differences could provide a useful legal and political tool to overcome future …
Improving Schools from the Bottom Up: From Effective Schools to Restructuring. Summary Volume.
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Factors Influencing Academic Achievement in Public Secondary Schools in Central Kenya: An Effective Schools’ Perspective
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An examination of the relationship between school climate and student growth in select Michigan charter schools
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