Enhancing student achievement
Subtitle: a framework for school improvement
Publisher: Assn Supervn & Curr Dev
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Alexandria
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781416600916
Description: Educators devoted to school reform focus all too often on the isolated components of K-12 education--this is the essential premise of this powerful new book. If we are truly committed to improving our schools, the author contends, then we must focus on the interdependence of variables that affect student learning, both inside and outside the classroom.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Political Context of School Improvement; 1-What We Want; 2-What We Believe; 3-What We Know; 4-What We Do; Policies; 5-School Organization; 6-Policies and Practices Affecting Students; 7-Policies and Practices Affecting Staff; 8-Linkages Beyond the School; Programs; 9-Aligned Curriculum; 10-Assessment; 11-Team Planning; 12-Learning Support; 13-Teaching; 14-Action Planning; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.