The implementation gap
Subtitle: understanding reform in high schools
By: edited by Jonathan A. Supovitz and Elliot H. Weinbaum ; foreword by Michael Fullan.
Contributors: Supovitz, Jonathan A.; Weinbaum, Elliot H.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780807748459
Subjects: Education, Secondary -- United States; Educational change -- United States
Description: "Students of educational improvement have long puzzled over why some school reform ideas blossom while others wither away. Based on an in-depth investigation by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), this volume looks at what actually happens when externally designed reforms enter into school environments. How and in what ways do reforms change schools even as schools alter the intent of reforms? What motivates school faculty responses and program designer reactions? This book sheds new light on these important questions by focusing on high schools, the sites of the greatest challenges in current school improvement efforts."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reform implementation revisited / Jonathan A. Supovitz and Elliot H. Weinbaum; title: Theme and variation : the enactment of reform / Jennifer A. Mueller and Katherine H. Hovde; title: Channeling adaptation : the role of design in enactment / Catherine Dunn shiffman, Matthew Riggan, Diane Massell, Matthew Goldwasser, Joy Anderson; title: Going with the flow : communication and reform in high schools / Elliot H. Weinbaum, Russell P. Cole, Michael J. Weiss, Jonathan A Supovitz; title: Interpreting, supporting, and resisting change : the geography of leadership in reform settings / Matthew Riggan and Jonathan A. Supovitz; title: Tilting the scales : central office support for external school reforms / Elliot H. Weinbaum, Catherine Dunn Shiffman, Margaret E. Goertz; title: Implementation as iterative reform / Jonathan A. Supovitz.