Improving America S Schools

Author : Kenneth K. Wong,Francis X. Shen,Dorothea Anagnostopoulos,Stacey Rutledge
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781589011793

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The Education Mayor by Kenneth K. Wong,Francis X. Shen,Dorothea Anagnostopoulos,Stacey Rutledge Pdf

In 2002 the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. But years before NCLB was signed, a new movement was already under way by mayors to take control of city schools from school boards and integrate the management of public education with the overall governing of the city. The Education Mayor is a critical look at mayoral control of urban school districts, beginning with Boston's schools in 1992 and examining more than 100 school districts in 40 states. The authors seek to answer four central questions: - What does school governance look like under mayoral leadership? - How does mayoral control affect school and student performance? - What are the key factors for success or failure of integrated governance? - How does mayoral control effect practical changes in schools and classrooms? The results of their examination indicate that, although mayoral control of schools may not be appropriate for every district, it can successfully emphasize accountability across the education system, providing more leverage for each school district to strengthen its educational infrastructure and improve student performance. Based on extensive quantitative data as well as case studies, this analytical study provides a balanced look at America's education reform. As the first multidistrict empirical examination and most comprehensive overall evaluation of mayoral school reform, The Education Mayor is a must-read for academics, policymakers, educational administrators, and civic and political leaders concerned about public education.

Author : Bruce R. Joyce
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032854445

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Improving America's Schools by Bruce R. Joyce Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309054362

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Improving America's Schools by National Research Council,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Pdf

Reform of American education is largely motivated by concerns about our economic competitiveness and American's standard of living. Yet, few if any of the public school reform agendas incorporate economic principles or research findings. Improving America's Schools explores how education and economic research can help produce, in the words of Harvard's Dale W. Jorgenson, "a unified framework for future education reform." This book presents the perspectives of noted experts, including Eric A. Hanushek, author of Making Schools Work, on creating incentives for improved school and student performance; Under Secretary of Education Marshall S. Smith on the Clinton Administration's reform program; and Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania, on the education of the disadvantaged. This volume explores these areas: The importance of schooling to labor market success. The prospects for combining school-based management with teacher incentives to gain the best of both approaches. The potential of recent innovations in student achievement testing, including new "value-added" indicators. The economic factors involved in maintaining an adequate stock of effective teachers. The volume also explores why, despite similar standards of living, France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and the United States produce different levels of education achievement. Improving America's Schools informs the current debate over school reform with a fresh perspective, examples, and data. This readable volume will be of interest to policymakers, researchers, educators, and education administrators as well as economists and employersâ€"it is also readily accessible to concerned parents and the larger community.

Author : Anthony S. Bryk,Louis M. Gomez,Alicia Grunow,Paul G. LeMahieu
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612507934

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Learning to Improve by Anthony S. Bryk,Louis M. Gomez,Alicia Grunow,Paul G. LeMahieu Pdf

As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than “implementing fast and learning slow,” they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to “learn fast to implement well.” Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, the authors show how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education. Organized around six core principles, the book shows how “networked improvement communities” can bring together researchers and practitioners to accelerate learning in key areas of education. Examples include efforts to address the high rates of failure among students in community college remedial math courses and strategies for improving feedback to novice teachers. Learning to Improve offers a new paradigm for research and development in education that promises to be a powerful driver of improvement for the nation’s schools and colleges.

Author : Barry Leonard
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788170034

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Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 by Barry Leonard Pdf

Complete text of the act which extended for 5 years the authorizations of appropriations for the program under the Elem. & Sec. Educ. Act of 1965. Covers: helping disadvantaged children meet high standards; the Eisenhower Professional Develop. Program; technology for educ. safe & drug-free schools & communities; magnet schools, women's educ. equity, school dropout problems; innovative educ. program strategies; bilingual educ., language enhancement, & language acquisition program; impact aid; Indian, Native Hawaiian, & Alaska Native educ.; programs of national significance; coordination services; school facilities infrastructure improvement; & improving educ.

Author : David Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781632869937

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Reinventing America's Schools by David Osborne Pdf

From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.

Author : Louis M. Gomez,Manuelito Biag,David G Imig,Randy Hitz,Steve Tozer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Educational change
ISBN : 9781538173237

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Improving America's Schools Together by Louis M. Gomez,Manuelito Biag,David G Imig,Randy Hitz,Steve Tozer Pdf

"A ground-breaking, practical resource for the burgeoning practice of continuous improvement in educational schools and districts nationwide"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Educational law and legislation
ISBN : UIUC:30112039719049

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Improving America's Schools Act of 1993 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Digital images
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061643719

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H.R. 3130, the Improving America's Schools Act of 1993 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Educational law and legislation
ISBN : UCR:31210024858654

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The Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph L. Bast,Herbert J. Walberg
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780817939731

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Education and Capitalism by Joseph L. Bast,Herbert J. Walberg Pdf

The authors call on the need to combine education with capitalism. Drawing on insights and findings from history, psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, they show how, if our schools were moved from the public sector to the private sector, they could once again do a superior job providing K–12 education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Educational law and legislation
ISBN : OCLC:33806573

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The Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric A. Hanushek,Paul E. Peterson,Ludger Woessmann
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780815703730

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Endangering Prosperity by Eric A. Hanushek,Paul E. Peterson,Ludger Woessmann Pdf

"Compares the performance of American schools with that of other countries against the background of an increasingly globalizing world, introducing new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity, and shows mixed results for U.S. students and recommends areas where American schools and education should be improved"-- Provided by publisher.

Author : Steven Brill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781451612011

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Class Warfare by Steven Brill Pdf

This work looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists, and education reformers are joining together to fix a system that works for adults but consistently fails the children it is meant to educate. In it the author takes a look at the adults who are fighting over America's failure to educate its children, and points the way to reversing that failure.

Author : Tony Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135957971

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Making the Grade by Tony Wagner Pdf

This book provides a guide for a long-overdue public dialogue about why and how we need to reinvent our nation's schools. How has the world changed for our children; what do all students need to know in light of these changes; how do we hold students and schools accountable for results; what do good schools look like; and what must leaders do to create more of these schools? These are some of the questions that drive this book. The answers emerging to these questions may surprise many. The most successful public schools of the 21st century look a lot more like our 19th century village schools than our current factory model of schooling. This book describes these "new village schools" that have been created in the last decade and suggests that they are a prototype for the schools of the future.