Systemwide efforts to improve student achievement

Strong system-wide support is increasingly being identified as laying an important role in policy efforts aimed at increasing student achievement (Hightower, Knapp, March, and McLaughlin: 2002). Yet current research often views district and other system-wide support as largely governance changes wit...

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Other Authors Wong, Kenneth K., 1955-, Rutledge, Stacey A.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP - Information Age Pub. Inc., 2006.
SeriesResearch in educational policy.
Subjects
School improvement programs > United States.
School districts > United States.
Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Educational strategies and policy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918116137
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-765-7
Physical Description1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : rethinking strategies to improve urban school systems / Kenneth K. Wong and Stacey A. Rutledge
  • State-level education reform : putting all the pieces together / Robert K. Yin and Darnella Davis
  • Organizational alignment within the Department of Defense Dependents Schools : a course for high academic achievement? / Claire E. Smrekar and Pearl Sims
  • Implementing supplemental educational services : implications for school districts and educational opportunity / Gail L. Sunderman and Jimmy Kim
  • Lessons learned from a longitudinal assessment of the new American schools scale-up phases during the 1990s / Mark Berends, Susan Bodilly, and Sheila Nataraj Kirby
  • Integrated governance in Trenton public schools (NJ) : coordinated efforts to raise performance in high schools / Kenneth K. Wong, Jenifer Blaxall Buice, and Kyle R. Cole
  • What makes small learning communities work : toward standards for practice / Diana Oxley
  • When technology supports teachers work : implementation of
  • Houston's teacher tools online initiative
  • Betsy Broyles Breier, Jacqueline Hawkins, Donald R. McAdams and Kenneth K. Wong
  • Contents
  • District policy as an uncertain catalyst for school change : school sanctioning in urban high schools / Dorothea Anagnostopoulos and Stacey A. Rutledge
  • District initiatives to improve curriculum and instruction : views of administrators on Houston's teacher tools online initiative / Kenneth K. Wong, Betsy Broyles Breier, Jacqueline Hawkins
  • Donald R. McAdams and Stacey A. Rutledge
  • Developing district-intermediary partnerships to promote
  • Instructional improvement : early experiences and lessons about the institute for learning / Julie A. Marsh, Kerri A. Kerr, Gina Schuyler Ikemoto, and Hilary Darilek
  • Peer coaching as a strategy to build instructional capactiy in low performing schools / Kenneth K. Wong and Anna Nicotera.

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