Enduring myths that inhibit school turnaround

The concept of school turnaround--rapidly improving schools and increasing student achievement outcomes in a short period of time--has become politicized despite the relative newness of the idea. Unprecedented funding levels for school improvement combined with few examples of schools substantially...

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Other Authors Meyers, Coby V. (Editor), Darwin, Marlene (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2017]
SeriesContemporary perspectives on school turnaround and reform.
Subjects
School improvement programs > United States.
Low-performing schools > United States.
Academic achievement > United States.
Educational change > United States.
Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Education.
Educational strategies and policy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608867
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-889-0
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 349 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Debunking school turnaround myths / Coby V. Meyers and Marlene Darwin
  • The failure fallacy : Examining the rate of school turnaround / Craig Hochbein and Abby Mahone
  • Understanding decline and failure is foundational to moving forward / Coby V. Meyers, Craig Hochbein, Mark Smylie, Samuel Stringfield, and Marc Stein
  • Neither urban core nor rural fringe : "in-between" districts and the shifting landscape of school performance in the United States / David Eddy-Spicer, Erin Anderson, and Frank Perrone
  • The myth of the single lever turnaround / Sam Stringfield, Eugene Schaffer, and David Reynolds
  • Everything but the kitchen sink : How an abundance of concurrent efforts thwarts school improvement / Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Aaron Butler, and Catherine Barbour
  • Reframing turnaround : From a school initiative to a system initiative / Caitlin Scott, Lenay Dunn, and Carlas McCauley
  • Unfinished business : State education agencies and their capacity to lead school turnaround / Joshua Childs
  • Autonomy and accountability in turnaround work : The myth of portfolio districts and organizational learning / Laura Groth, Matthew Malone, and Joshua L. Glazer
  • Assessing school turnarounds : Using an integrative framework to identify levers for success / Kirsten Lee Hill, Laura Desimone, Tonya Wolford
  • And adrienne reitano
  • Moving beyond the myths of turnaround to address the intersection of poverty and urban schooling / Kecia Hayes, Angela Fulcher, Catherine Hogg, Michael Ramsey
  • And danielle proscia
  • Turning around from within : Using internal capacity to improve low-performing schools / Adriana Villavicencio
  • An enduring myth : Turnaround leadership is identity neutral / Jennie M. Weiner and Laura Burton
  • Should they stay or should they go? : The mythical appeal of staff replacement as a turnaround strategy / Elizabeth Mann, Rebecca Herman, and Michael Hansen
  • Turnaround as faustian bargain : The myth of virtuous action / Kimberly Kappler Hewitt and Ulrich Reitzug
  • The fallacy of school grades : Exploring the myth that public shaming leads to school improvement / Robert Smith and Scott Imig
  • School turnarounds and the test of time / Dallas Hambrick Hitt and Coby V. Meyers
  • Changing the school turnaround conversation / Marlene Darwin and Coby V. Meyers.

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