Improving schools and educational systems
Subtitle: international perspectives
By: edited by Alma Harris & Janet Chrispeels.
Contributors: Harris, Alma, 1958-; Chrispeels, Janet.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: School improvement programs; Educational change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the context; title: Introduction / Alma Harris and Janet Chrispeels; title: A brief history of school improvement research in the USA / Charles B. Teddlie and Samuel Stringfield; title: School improvement : phases 2 and 3; title: Success for all / Robert Slavin and Nancy A. Madden; title: The high reliability schools project : some preliminary results and analyses / David Reynolds, Samuel Stringfield, and Eugene C Schaffer; title: Using the power of difference in school improvement projects / Paul Clarke, Mel Ainscow and Mel West; title: Effective school improvement : similarities and differences in improvement in eight European countries / Louise Stoll, Bert P.M. Creemers, and Gerry Reezigt; title: School improvement : phase 4; title: Changing secondary schools is hard : lessons from 10 years of school improvement / Lorna Earl, Nancy Torrance, and Stephanie Sutherland; title: Building instructional quality : inside-out and outside-in perspectives on San Diego's school reform / Linda Darling-Hammond ... [et al.]; title: Standards-based reform and small schools of choice : how reform theories converge in three urban middle schools / Chrysan Gallucci ... [et al.]; title: Education district development in South Africa : a new direction for school improvement? / Brahm Fleisch; title: The challenge of systemic change in complex educational systems : a district model to scale up reform / Janet Chrispeels and Margerita Gonzales; title: The creation of knowledge networks : collaborative enquiry for school and system improvement / David Jackson; title: Towards the 5th phase school improvement : future directions for the field / Janet Chrispeels and Alma Harris.