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Systemic school reform
Marshall S. Smith,Jennifer O'Day +1 more
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In this paper, the authors propose a state-level structure for improving classroom instruction and learning, based on clear and challenging standards for student learning; policy components would be tied to the standards and reinforce one another in providing guidance to schools and teachers about instruction.Abstract:
This analytic essay draws on research about the effectiveness of current education policies as well as observations about developing policy systems in a number of states. The chapter begins with several observations about policy and school-level success, examines current barriers to school improvement and proposes a design for a systemic state structure that supports school-site efforts to improve classroom instruction and learning. The structure would be based on clear and challenging standards for student learning; policy components would be tied to the standards and reinforce one another in providing guidance to schools and teachers about instruction. Within the structure of coherent state leadership, schools would have the flexibility they need to develop strategies best suited to their students. The systemic school reform strategy combines the ‘waves’ of reform into a long-term improvement effort that puts coherence and direction into state reforms and content into the restructuring movement.read more
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World society and the nation-state
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Effects of Professional Development on Teachers’ Instruction: Results from a Three-year Longitudinal Study
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Collective Sensemaking about Reading: How Teachers Mediate Reading Policy in Their Professional Communities:
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Comprehensive School Reform and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis
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Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance
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Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality.
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A place called school
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Effective Schools: A Review
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Staff Development and the Process of Teacher Change
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