Reforming Education and Changing Schools - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reforming Education and Changing Schools write by Richard Bowe. This book was released on 1992. Reforming Education and Changing Schools available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1988 Education Reform Act brought about many changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions. This book looks at the effects of the Act from empirical data gathered from schools over the first three years of implementation.
Extending Educational Reform
Extending Educational Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extending Educational Reform write by Amanda Datnow. This book was released on 2005-11-02. Extending Educational Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Addicted to Reform
Addicted to Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Addicted to Reform write by John Merrow. This book was released on 2017-08-15. Addicted to Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America's obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including "Measure What Matters," and "Embrace Teachers"—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a "big book" that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.
Changing Schools, Changing Practices
Changing Schools, Changing Practices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Schools, Changing Practices write by Dr. Manfred Lang (Dipl.-Psychologe). This book was released on 1999. Changing Schools, Changing Practices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Revisiting "The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change"
Revisiting "The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revisiting "The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change" write by Seymour B. Sarason. This book was released on 1996. Revisiting "The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revisiting “The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change” provocatively and seamlessly joins Seymour Sarason’s classic, landmark text on school change with his own insightful re?ections on those same issues in the face of today’s crisis in public schools. This is an extensive, monograph–length revisiting. Part I of this book reproduces the second edition of Sarason’s ground–breaking work, The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change, in which he detailed how change can affect a school’s culturally diverse environment—either through the implementation of new programs or as a result of federally imposed regulations. Throughout, many of the major assumptions about change in institutions are challenged. Speci?c events and examples demonstrate that any attempt to implement change involves some existing regularity within the school. Dr. Sarason also takes a close look at government involvement in change efforts in schooling—and includes a detailed examination of current efforts to implement PL 94–142 into public schools. He presents compelling evidence that the federal effort to change and improve schools has largely been a failure. Also included are investigations into the purposes of schooling and how these purposes can be affected by change, and the process by which educators and administrators formulate intended outcomes of change efforts. In Part II, Dr. Sarason “revisits” the text and the issues 25 years after the original publication. As he explains in his preface, to him the word crisis means “a point in time when a dangerous situation contains con?icting forces of an intensity or seriousness that in the near term will be dramatically altered depending on which forces win out. When I wrote the book a quarter century ago, I did not regard our schools as in crisis...[though] my intuition . . . was that a crisis would come sooner or later. It has, in my opinion, come.” Believing that “what happens in our cities and our schools will determine the fate of our society,” Dr. Sarason is deeply concerned that the reform arena is being manipulated by forces that are at best untroubled by and at worst intent on the dismantling of the public school system. That, coupled with his fear that even the system’s defenders are not focusing on the real issues, has infused Dr. Sarason’s return to the topic of educational change with a great sense of urgency. The important things he has to say will be welcomed by all who truly care about the state of the public schools that America’s children attend.
