Improving schools and educational systems: international perspectives/

Other Authors: Harris, Alma,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York: Routledge, 2006
Series:Contexts of learning 17
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005024642.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2005024642-d.html
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the context
  • Introduction / Alma Harris and Janet Chrispeels
  • A brief history of school improvement research in the USA / Charles B. Teddlie and Samuel Stringfield
  • School improvement : phases 2 and 3
  • Success for all / Robert Slavin and Nancy A. Madden
  • The high reliability schools project : some preliminary results and analyses / David Reynolds, Samuel Stringfield, and Eugene C Schaffer
  • Using the power of difference in school improvement projects / 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
  • School improvement : phase 4
  • Changing secondary schools is hard : lessons from 10 years of school improvement / 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 ... [et al.]
  • Standards-based reform and small schools of choice : how reform theories converge in three urban middle schools / Chrysan Gallucci ... [et al.]
  • 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 Chrispeels and Margerita Gonzales
  • The creation of knowledge networks : collaborative enquiry for school and system improvement / David Jackson
  • Towards the 5th phase school improvement : future directions for the field / Janet Chrispeels and Alma Harris.