New American Schools after six years /
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| Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, Calif. :
RAND,
1998.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=49206 |
Table of Contents:
- Figures and tables
- The initiation of New American Schools
- Overview of report
- The potential contribution of school designs and design-based assistance to education reform
- The nature of New American Schools designs
- The character of the design-based assistance New American Schools design teams provide
- Vision inherent in design
- Strategies for implementation
- Assessment of progress and adjustment of implementation activities
- Resources and time to enable school transformationl
- Continued professional support for school staff
- Design-based assistance as a focus for jurisdictional reform
- Potential benefits of using design-based assistance as a cornerstone of a reform strategy
- Jurisdictional operating environments: lessons learned during implementation
- Marching teams with schools
- New American Schools and jurisdiction responses to problems with matching schools and design teams
- Aggregating investment resources
- School-level authority
- Lack of alignment of designs with jurisdiction accountability systems
- Professional development
- Challenges for design teams seeking self-sufficiency
- Evolution of New American Schools strategy for supporting design teams
- Challenges the design teams faced in phase 3
- Marketing and sales
- Setting prices for services and materials
- Building a staff to provide assistance
- Further development of products and services
- New American Schools' assistance to teams for business planning
- Looking to the future
- Whole school designs
- Design-based assistance.