Improving Schools and Educational Systems: International Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367604042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str.

Alma Harris; Janet Hageman Chrispeels

Opis

Combining the most effective school improvement projects from around the world within one comprehensive text, this book presents an overview of detailed analyses of a wide variety of international initiatives that have given achievable results.

Spis treści

Part 1: Setting the Context  Introduction 1. A Brief History of School Improvement Research in the USA Part 2: School Improvement: Phases 2 and 3  2. Success For All 3. The High Reliability Schools Project: Some Preliminary Results and Analyses 4. sing the power of difference in school improvement projects 5.Effective School Improvement:: Similarities and Differences in Improvement in Eight European Countries Part 3: School Improvement: Phase 4  6. Changing Secondary Schools Is Hard: Lessons from 10 years of School Improvement 7. Building Instructional Quality: 'Inside-Out' and 'Outside-In' Perspectives on San Diego’s School Reform 8. Standards-Based Reform and Small Schools of Choice: How Reform Theories Converge in Three Urban Middle Schools 9. Education District Development in South Africa: A New Direction for School Improvement? 10. The Challenge of Systemic Change in Complex Educational Systems: A District Model to Scale Up Reform 11. The Creation of Knowledge Networks: Collaborative Enquiry for School and System Improvement Part 4: Towards the 5^th Phase School Improvement: Future Directions for the Field Conclusion.

O autorze

In 2008, Alma Harris was appointed Pro-Director (Leadership) at the Institute of Education, London and Professor of Educational Leadership at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning, Institute of Education, London. Previously she was Director of the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick.