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Improving schools and educational systems : international perspectives /

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Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Harris, Alma, 1958-, Chrispeels, Janet
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series:Contexts of learning.
Subjects:
School improvement programs.
Educational change.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Alma Harris and Janet H. Chrispeels
  • A brief history of school improvement research in the USA / Charles B. Teddlie and Samuel Stringfield
  • Success for all : research and reform in reading / Robert E. Slavin and Nancy A. Madden
  • The high reliability schools project : some preliminary results and analyses / David Reynolds, Sam Stringfield, and Eugene C. Schaffer
  • Learning from difference : some reflections on school improvement projects in three countries / Paul Clarke, Mel Ainscow and Mel West
  • Effective school improvement : similarities and differences in improvement in eight European countries / Louise Stoll, Bert P.M. Creemers and Gerry Reezigt
  • Changing secondary schools is hard : lessons from 10 years of school improvement in the Manitoba School Improvement Program / Lorna Earl, Nancy Torrance, and Stephanie Sutherland
  • Building instructional quality : 'inside-out' and 'outside-in' perspectives on San Diego's school reform / Linda Darling-Hammond, Amy M. Hightower, Jennifer L. Husbands, Jeannette R. LaFors, Viki M. Young and Carl Christopher
  • Standards-based reform and small schools of choice : how reform theories converge in three urban middle schools / Chrysan Gallucci, Michael S. Knapp, Anneke Markholt and Suzanne Ort
  • Education district development in South Africa : a new direction for school improvement? / Brahm Fleisch
  • The challenge of systemic change in complex educational systems : a district model to scale up reform / Janet H. Chrispeels and Margerita González
  • The creation of knowledge networks : collaborative enquiry for school and system improvement / David Jackson
  • Conclusion : future directions for the field / Janet H. Chrispeels and Alma Harris.