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Author : Brian M. Stecher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Portfolio-driven Reform written by Brian M. Stecher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian M. Stecher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Portfolio-driven Reform written by Brian M. Stecher and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katrina E. Bulkley
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 168253572X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Challenging the One Best System written by Katrina E. Bulkley and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Challenging the One Best System, a team of leading education scholars offers a rich comparative analysis of the set of urban education governance reforms collectively known as the “portfolio management model.” They investigate the degree to which this model—a system of schools operating under different types of governance and with different degrees of autonomy—challenges the standard structure of district governance famously characterized by David Tyack as “the one best system.” The authors examine the design and enactment of the portfolio management model in three major cities: New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Denver. They identify the five interlocking mechanisms at the core of the model—planning and oversight, choice, autonomy, human capital, and school supports—and show how these are implemented differently in each city. Using rich qualitative data from extensive interviews, the authors trace the internal tensions and tradeoffs that characterize these systems and highlight the influence of historical and contextual factors as well. Most importantly, they question whether the portfolio management model represents a fundamental restructuring of education governance or more incremental change, and whether it points in the direction of meaningful improvement in school practices. Drawing on a rigorous, multimethod study, Challenging the One Best System represents a significant contribution to our understanding of system-level change in education.
Author : Marilyn Burns
Publisher : Math Solutions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book About Teaching Mathematics written by Marilyn Burns and published by Math Solutions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of more than 240 classroom-tested lessons, this essential resource helps teachers build student understanding and skills and understand how children best learn math. In this third edition, Marilyn Burns has completely revised the first section to reflect what she has learned over the years from her classroom experience with students and her professional development experience with teachers. This section has also been expanded to address these important topics: teaching math vocabulary, incorporating writing into math instruction, linking assessment and instruction, and using children¿s literature to teach key math concepts. In an entirely new section, Marilyn addresses a wide range of questions she has received over the years from elementary and middle school teachers regarding classroom management and instructional issues.
Author : John Merrow
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620972433
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Addicted to Reform written by John Merrow and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America's obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including "Measure What Matters," and "Embrace Teachers"—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a "big book" that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.
Author : Kenneth Carl Montgomery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (652 download)
Download or read book Building Common Instructional Practice in a Choice-driven District written by Kenneth Carl Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two competing strategies for school improvement have gained traction over the past twenty years. One approach centers on attempts to better manage instruction from the top as a way to improve school quality and student outcomes. The other strategy aims to loosen controls by giving schools more autonomy with the thought that educators will utilize increased autonomy as a mechanism for creating and redesigning schools that better meet the needs of students. At the district level, these two approaches have been loosely categorized as managed instruction or a portfolio reform strategy respectively. Although many districts have attempted variations of both of these models, few districts have attempted to actively manage instruction within a portfolio of schools. To better understand how these strategies can support and diminish one another this study examined Milwaukee Public Schools' attempt to build common instructional practice in its portfolio of schools. The study sought to answer two primary questions: How can a district attempt to build common instructional practice in a portfolio of schools and to what effect? To address these questions the study presents a case study on the implementation of the MPS instructional improvement plan and an examination of both student outcomes and instructional practice across the district. It was concluded that the outcomes are mixed: the district has made progress in creating the context necessary for building common practice, but wide variation in instructional still exists. MPS has created a common language for discussing instruction and implemented processes that support common practice, with a particularly strong effort in making instructional practice transparent. Despite success in these areas the district has not yet realized the system-wide changes in instructional practice it had sought because many of the policies and attitudes that support the portfolio approach frustrate the attempts at building common practice. It has been especially difficult for the district to build an instructional accountability system and create coherence and support for its principals and teachers.
Author : Linda Darling-Hammond
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118889290
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Bubble Test written by Linda Darling-Hammond and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance assessment is a hot topic in school systems, and educators continue to analyze its costs, benefits, and feasibility as a replacement for high-stakes testing. Until now, researchers and policymakers have had to dig to find out what we know and what we still have to learn about performance assessment. Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning synthesizes the latest findings in the field, and not a moment too soon. Statistics indicate that the United States is in danger of falling behind if it fails to adapt to our changing world. The memory and recall strategies of traditional testing are no longer adequate to equip our students with the skills they need to excel in the global economy. Instead teachers need to engage students in deeper learning, assessing their ability to use higher-order skills. Skills like synthesizing information, understanding evidence, and critical problem-solving are not achieved when we teach to multiple-choice exams. Examples in Beyond the Bubble Test paint a useful picture of how schools can begin to supplement traditional tests with something that works better. This book provides new perspectives on current performance assessment research, plus an incisive look at what’s possible at the local and state levels. Linda Darling-Hammond, with a team of leading scholars, bring together lessons learned, new directions, and solid recommendations into a single, readily accessible compendium. Beyond the Bubble Test situates the current debate on performance assessment within the context of testing in the United States. This comprehensive resource also looks beyond our U.S. borders to Singapore, Hong Kong, and other places whose reform-mindedness can serve as an example to us.
Author : Raimundo Soto
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Measurement of Market-oriented Reforms written by Raimundo Soto and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Loayza and Soto present policy and outcome-based ways of measuring the progress of market-oriented reforms in both traditional areas of first-generation reform and the areas of institutional reform that have been emphasized lately. These policy areas are the domestic financial system, international financial markets, international trade, the labor market, the tax system, public infrastructure and public firms, the legal and regulatory framework, and governance. For each of them, the authors first discuss the general principles underlying market-oriented reform. Second, they present various indicators of the policy stance in the area in question. And third, they present various outcome indicators of the policy stance. This paper is a product of Investment Climate Team, Development Research Group is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the process of economic reform"--World Bank web site.
Author : Jay Philip Heubert
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300082968
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Law and School Reform written by Jay Philip Heubert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of six of the most controversial school reform initiatives in the US: school desegregation; school finance reform; special education; education of immigrant children; integration of youth services; and enforcable performance mandates.
Author : Magnus Ekengren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317020111
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Security Sector Reform written by Magnus Ekengren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security Sector Reform (SSR) is increasingly becoming a cornerstone in international security and development cooperation. Indeed, the concept has often been seen as a panacea for many of the biggest threats to the world such as failed states, terrorism and poverty. In particular, this book focuses on the complexities of implementation of SSR across the globe and the actual and potential role for the European Union (EU) to play in SSR. As suggested in the title of the book, this involves not only opportunities, but challenges to be overcome as well. There are three core themes to this book: Policy, Policies and Practice. By presenting the themes in this particular order a greater appreciation of the influences on the process of SSR, from conception to implementation is relayed to the reader. This volume appeals to audiences interested in the EU as a global actor and the interrelationships between foreign, security, defence and development policies.
Author : Lesley Van Schoubroeck
Publisher : UWA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1742583156
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The Lure of Politics written by Lesley Van Schoubroeck and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lure of Politics takes readers back through the pivotal moments during Geoff Gallop’s five years as premier of Western Australia. Gallop was elected to power after eight years of conservative rule during which the reputation of previous Labor administrations had been damaged in the findings of the WA Inc Royal Commission. This well-researched book draws on interviews with key people during the Gallop Government as well as documents published by Gallop’s Government.
Author : Gerard Caprio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574242
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Financial Reform written by Gerard Caprio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the first to look at the analytics of and experience with financial reform, in examples drawn mostly from the developing world.
Author : Karen Ann Levesque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Motivating Improvement written by Karen Ann Levesque and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederic C. Deyo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801464412
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Reforming Asian Labor Systems written by Frederic C. Deyo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reforming Asian Labor Systems, Frederic C. Deyo examines the implications of post-1980s market-oriented economic reform for labor systems in China, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. Adopting a critical institutionalist perspective, he explores the impact of elite economic interests and strategies, labor politics, institutional path dependencies, and changing economic circumstances on regimes of labor and social regulation in these four countries. Of particular importance are reform-driven socioeconomic and political tensions that, especially following the regional financial crisis of the late 1990s, have encouraged increased efforts to integrate social and developmental agendas with those of market reform. Through his analysis of the social economy of East and Southeast Asia, Deyo suggests that several Asian countries may now be positioned to repeat what they achieved in earlier decades: a prominent role in defining new international models of development and market reform that adapt to the pressures and constraints of the evolving world economy.
Author : Laura S. Hamilton
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833033980
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education written by Laura S. Hamilton and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test-based accountability systems that attach high stakes to standardized test results have raised a number of issues on educational assessment and accountability. Do these high-stakes tests measure student achievement accurately? How can policymakers and educators attach the right consequences to the results of these tests? And what kinds of tradeoffs do these testing policies introduce? This book responds to the growing emphasis on high-stakes testing and offers recommendations for more-effective test-based accountability systems.
Author : Keough, Penelope D.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799811794
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Overcoming Current Challenges in the P-12 Teaching Profession written by Keough, Penelope D. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers are constantly faced with a plethora of challenges, but none has been more prevalent in the 21st century than educating a diverse collection of students. In the midst of the current challenges in teaching P-12 students, pre-service teachers may be under district contract but may not be prepared for teaching students with disabilities, the homeless, second language learners recently immigrated to the United States, or students who face emotional challenges or addiction. Overcoming Current Challenges in the P-12 Teaching Profession is an essential reference book that provides insight, strategies, and solutions to overcome current challenges experienced by P-12 teachers in general and special education. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as global education, professional development, and responsive teaching, this book is ideally designed for educators, administrators, school psychologists, counselors, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on culturally responsive teaching.
Author : Julie H. Carter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137560002
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms written by Julie H. Carter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book Award This book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam. The adoption of nationalized teacher performance exams has raised concerns about the influence of corporate interests in teacher education, the objectivity of nationalized teaching standards, and ultimately the overarching political and economic interests shaping the process, format, and nature of assessment itself. Through an arc of scholarship from various perspectives, this book explores a range of questions about the goals and interests at work in the roll out of the edTPA assessment and gives voice to those most affected by these policy changes, teacher educators, and teacher education students.
