System-wide efforts to improve student achievement
By: edited by Kenneth K. Wong and Stacy A. Rutledge.
Contributors: Wong, Kenneth K., 1955-; Rutledge, Stacy A.
Series: Research in educational policy : local, national and global perspectives; Research in educational policy.
Publisher: IAP - Information Age Pub. Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Greenwich, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: School improvement programs -- United States.; School districts -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rethinking strategies to improve urban school systems / Kenneth K. Wong and Stacey A. Rutledge; title: State-level education reform : putting all the pieces together / Robert K. Yin and Darnella Davis; title: Organizational alignment within the Department of Defense Dependents Schools : a course for high academic achievement? / Claire E. Smrekar and Pearl Sims; title: Implementing supplemental educational services : implications for school districts and educational opportunity / Gail L. Sunderman and Jimmy Kim; title: Lessons learned from a longitudinal assessment of the new American schools scale-up phases during the 1990s / Mark Berends, Susan Bodilly, and Sheila Nataraj Kirby; title: Integrated governance in Trenton public schools (NJ) : coordinated efforts to raise performance in high schools / Kenneth K. Wong, Jenifer Blaxall Buice, and Kyle R. Cole; title: What makes small learning communities work : toward standards for practice / Diana Oxley; title: When technology supports teachers work : implementation of; title: Houston's teacher tools online initiative; title: Betsy Broyles Breier, Jacqueline Hawkins, Donald R. McAdams and Kenneth K. Wong; title: Contents; title: District policy as an uncertain catalyst for school change : school sanctioning in urban high schools / Dorothea Anagnostopoulos and Stacey A. Rutledge; title: District initiatives to improve curriculum and instruction : views of administrators on Houston's teacher tools online initiative / Kenneth K. Wong, Betsy Broyles Breier, Jacqueline Hawkins; title: Donald R. McAdams and Stacey A. Rutledge; title: Developing district-intermediary partnerships to promote; title: Instructional improvement : early experiences and lessons about the institute for learning / Julie A. Marsh, Kerri A. Kerr, Gina Schuyler Ikemoto, and Hilary Darilek; title: Peer coaching as a strategy to build instructional capactiy in low performing schools / Kenneth K. Wong and Anna Nicotera.