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Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why We Need to Think Systemically in Educational Policy and Reform; Section 1. School Districts as Leverage Points for Systems Change; 1 Learning From the Past to Chart New Directions in the Study of School District Effectiveness; 2 Expanding School Indicator Systems in a Post-NCLB Era; Section 2. Systems Learning at the School and Classroom Levels; 3 Formative Experimentation: The Role of Experimental Research in Program Development; 4 A Research-Practice Partnership to Improve Formative Classroom Assessment in Science. |
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Section 3. How Politics, Underlying Theories, and Leadership Capacity Support System-Wide Change5 Portfolio Reform in Los Angeles: Successes and Challenges in School District Implementation; 6 Common Core, Uncommon Theory of Action: CEOs in New York City Schools; 7 How Leadership Churn Undermines Learning and Improvement in Low-Performing School Districts; Section 4. Systemic Lessons for Policy and Practice: Improving School Districts Under Pressure; 8 Commentary: Three Organizational Lessons for School District Improvement; 9 Commentary: Toward Systemic Reform in Urban School Districts. |
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Conclusions: The Challenge of School and District Improvement: Promising Directions in District ReformIndex; Conference Participants; About the Contributors. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
School improvement programs -- United States.
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School improvement programs. |
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United States. |
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Educational change -- United States.
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Educational change. |
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Public schools -- United States.
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Public schools. |
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Daly, Alan J., editor.
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Finnigan, Kara S., editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9780935302448 0935302441 (DLC) 2015048075 (OCoLC)939244022 |
ISBN |
9780935302578 (electronic book) |
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0935302573 (electronic book) |
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9780935302462 (electronic book) |
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0935302468 (electronic book) |
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9780935302448 |
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0935302441 |
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9780935302455 |
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093530245X |
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