The abstract for these documents is longer than the annotation for journal articles. Journal articles are announced in Current Index to Journals in Education. To locate additional documents related to this or any other topic within the scope of educational management, we invite you to access the In-Process Abstracts section of our website, where you can search for items that have recently been abstracted by our Clearinghouse but have not yet been added to the ERIC database. Reform initiatives have produced little controversy in the educational community. District superintendents use the reform law to effect their own, local reform agendas.
Superintendents respond to reform pressures by adopting counterreform, stabilizing measures.
ED429360 EA029771 Implementing Schoolwide Programs. An Idea Book. For Volume 1, see ED 423 615. It demonstrates how educators and their supporting communities are implementing a new vision of comprehensive school reform using the schoolwide program option available under the 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which requires states and districts to set challenging standards for what students should know and be able to do. The document was completed by consulting with successful school-based educators to learn what it takes to create outstanding schoolwide programs.