Extending Educational Reform

Extending Educational Reform
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9781134550722
ISBN-13 : 1134550723
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Synopsis Extending Educational Reform by : Amanda Datnow

In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many? Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explores what happens when school reform 'goes to scale'. Topics covered include: *why and how schools are adopting reforms *the influence of the local context and wider constraints on the implementation of reform *teachers and principals as change agents in schools *the evolution of reform design teams *the implementation, sustainability and expiration of reform, and its impact on educational change Each chapter concludes with guidelines for policy and practice. This book will be of interest to educational leaders and staff developers, educational researchers and policy makers, in the US and internationally.

Extending Educational Change

Extending Educational Change
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9781402044533
ISBN-13 : 1402044534
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Extending Educational Change by : Andy Hargreaves

ANDY HARGREAVES Department of Teacher Education, Curriculum and Instruction Lynch School of Education, Boston College, MA, U.S.A. ANN LIEBERMAN Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford, CA, U.S.A. MICHAEL FULLAN Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada DAVID HOPKINS Department for Education and Skills, London, U.K. This set of four volumes on Educational Change brings together evidence and insights on educational change issues from leading writers and researchers in the field from across the world. Many of these writers, whose chapters have been specially written for these books, have been investigating, helping initiate and implementing educational change, for most or all of their lengthy careers. Others are working on the cutting edge of theory and practice in educational change, taking the field in new or even more challenging directions. And some are more skeptical about the literature of educational change and the assumptions on which it rests. They help us to approach projects of understanding or initiating educational change more deeply, reflectively and realistically. Educational change and reform have rarely had so much prominence within public policy, in so many different places. Educational change is ubiquitous. It figures large in Presidential and Prime Ministerial speeches. It is at or near the top of many National policy agendas. Everywhere, educational change is not only a policy priority but also major public news. Yet action to bring about educational change usually exceeds people's understanding of how to do so effectively.

Expanding the Reach of Education Reforms: Perspectives from Leaders in the Scale-Up of Educational Interventions

Expanding the Reach of Education Reforms: Perspectives from Leaders in the Scale-Up of Educational Interventions
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Publisher : Rand Corporation
Total Pages : 747
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ISBN-10 : 9780833040657
ISBN-13 : 0833040650
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Synopsis Expanding the Reach of Education Reforms: Perspectives from Leaders in the Scale-Up of Educational Interventions by : Thomas K. Glennan

How does one spread a successful educational reform? The essays here recount the authors?' experiences with the scale-up process. Among their lessons are the importance of building the capacity to implement and sustain the reforms, adjusting for local culture and policy, ensuring quality control, providing the necessary infrastructure, and fostering a sense of ownership. The process is iterative and complex and requires cooperation among many actors who must ensure that the results align with goals.

Scaling Up Education Reform

Scaling Up Education Reform
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Publisher : Nzcer Press
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 1877398543
ISBN-13 : 9781877398544
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Synopsis Scaling Up Education Reform by : Russell Bishop

What is school reform? What makes it sustainable? Who needs to be involved? How is scaling up achieved? This book is about the need for educational reforms that have built into them, from the outset, those elements that will see them sustained in the original sites and spread to others. Using the Te Kotahitanga Project as a model the authors branch out from the project itself to seek to uncover how an educational reform can become both extendable and sustainable. Their model can be applied to a variety of levels within education: classroom, school and system wide. It has seven elements that should be present in the reform initiative from the outset. These elements include establishing goals and a vision for reducing disparities; embedding a new pedagogy to depth in order to change the core of educational practice; developing new institutions and organisational structures to support in-class initiatives; developing leadership that is responsive, proactive and distributed; spreading the reform to include all teachers, parents, community members and external agencies; developing and using appropriate measures of performance as evidence for modifying core classroom and school practices; creating opportunities for all involved to take ownership of the reform in such a way that the original objectives of the reform are protected and sustained. This book is an essential read for anyone who is involved in the process of trying to achieve sustainable school reform that addresses the question of how mainstream schools can effectively address the learning needs of students currently not well served by education. The authors of this book are descended from a number of Maori tribes in New Zealand. They are part of the growing ethnic revitalisation movement that has seen Maori people seeking their own solutions to the ongoing social, economic, and political disparities that continue to plague Maori people in Aotearoa New Zealand. This book focuses on their attempts to work within, and change, mainstream classrooms to include all children in the benefits that education has to offer.

Expanding the Reach of Education Reforms. Perspectives from Leaders in the Scale-Up of Educational Interventions

Expanding the Reach of Education Reforms. Perspectives from Leaders in the Scale-Up of Educational Interventions
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 706
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:74272903
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Synopsis Expanding the Reach of Education Reforms. Perspectives from Leaders in the Scale-Up of Educational Interventions by :

Fifty years ago, Brown V. Board of Education set in motion a series of legislative and judicial efforts to undo the effects of racial segregation, providing opportunities and support for children who had been denied both. Twenty years ago, the publication of A Nation at Risk (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983) drew attention to the need for reform in all of America's schools to ensure the nation's ability to compete in the international economy. These two forces pressure to improve the quality of schools for all students and pressure to reduce gaps in access and performance of students- have resulted in both a demand for better approaches to teaching and learning and a supply of interventions intended to build the capacity within our schools to serve all children better. On the demand side, the nation has given education a high priority, even in the face of economic downturns and international turmoil. Individual states, some on their own and some under pressure from federal leaders, have revamped their standards, their assessment systems, and the incentives they provide to schools to improve their performance. The federal government, through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, continues to press for improvements in educational performance within all the many social and ethnic groups in American society and is holding schools accountable for achieving it.

A Nation at Risk

A Nation at Risk
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 82
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015004170224
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Synopsis A Nation at Risk by : United States. National Commission on Excellence in Education

Class and Schools

Class and Schools
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Publisher : Teachers College Press
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 0807745561
ISBN-13 : 9780807745564
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Class and Schools by : Richard Rothstein

Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. According to Richard Rothstein, "Closing the gaps between lower-class and middle-class children requires social and economic reform as well as school improvement. Unfortunately, the trend is to shift most of the burden to schools, as if they alone can eradicate poverty and inequality." In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance to succeed in school. This book features: a summary of numerous studies linking school achievement to health care quality, nutrition, childrearing styles, housing stability, parental economic security, and more ; aA look at erroneous and misleading data that underlie commonplace claims that some schools "beat the demographic odds and therefore any school can close the achievement gap if only it adopted proper practices." ; and an analysis of how the over-emphasis of standardized tests in federal law obscures the true achievement gap and makes narrowing it more difficult.

Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms

Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 9783030570392
ISBN-13 : 3030570398
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms by : Fernando M. Reimers

This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of development. The study includes system level reforms in jurisdictions where students achieve high levels in international assessments of basic literacies, such as Singapore and Ontario, Canada, as well as in nations where students achieve much lower levels, such as Kenya, Mexico, Punjab-Pakistan and Zimbabwe. The chapters examine system-level reforms that focus on strengthening the capacity to teach the basics, as in Ontario and Pakistan, as well as reforms that aim at building the capacity to teach a much broader set of competencies and skills, such as Kenya, Mexico, Singapore and Zimbabwe. The volume includes systems at very different levels of spending per student and reforms at various points in the cycle of policy implementation, some just starting, some struggling to survive a governmental transition, and others that have been in place for an extended period of time. From the comparative study of these reforms, we aim to provide an understanding of how to build the capacity of education systems to teach 21st century skills at scale in diverse settings.

Reclaiming Education

Reclaiming Education
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 173
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ISBN-10 : 9781137388438
ISBN-13 : 1137388439
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Reclaiming Education by : Ron Scapp

This book is an appeal to those directly and indirectly involved in education reform to reconsider the very nature of education as a process of transformation and not, as the neoliberal corporate model insists upon, as a “product.” By using Paulo Freire’s fundamental principle of understanding “education as the practice of freedom,” and expanding upon it with bell hooks’ own spiritual understanding of that principle, this book offers readers the opportunity to rethink what education is, and what it is not. Utilizing the work of diverse thinkers and critics, the book lays out a criticism of neoliberalism’s profound influence on education reform and our culture generally. It reaffirms the political and ethical import of education for individuals and for our nation as a whole.

Academies and Educational Reform

Academies and Educational Reform
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Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781847693150
ISBN-13 : 1847693156
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Academies and Educational Reform by : Elizabeth Leo

Behind the headlines and controversy surrounding new academy schools, many of their principals, teachers and pupils have been quietly changing the culture of learning and achievement in some of the most disadvantaged communities in England. While successful innovation and change is not unique to academies, this book illustrates how the academy policy represents a significant opportunity to improve the life chances of their pupils. Too much attention has focused on unanswerable questions about whether academies are better or worse than their predecessor or comparable schools in their neighbourhood. Too little focus has been on what policy-makers and practitioners can learn from the different, and often conflicting, perspectives of the key players, notably sponsors, architects, principals, parents and pupils in order to create a school that can truly serve their community with distinction. "The development of Academies is a high profile initiative which has given rise to a large number of publications. However, as the analysis in this book illustrates, many of these consist either of polemic or of attempts at evaluation with limited sophistication or success. By asking the question `what can be learned from the Academies programme?' this book provides a different perspective. The range of interviews with key informants provides concrete original data around which the discussion and analysis are skilfully woven." Mike Fleming, University of Durham, UK "Not only do the authors draw upon interviews with a wide range of practitioners working in Academies, but they also give the reader access to the thinking of leading strategists in the development of their philosophy, most notably Lord Adonis. This in its own right recommends the book as a text of critical importance. More than this, however, the authors undertake a painstaking but always riveting analysis of the successes and failures of this central strategy in New Labour educational policy." Derrick Armstrong, University of Sydney, Australia