Download or read book Blueprint for School System Transformation written by Frederick Hess, author of Letters to a Young Education Reformer; director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a team of national experts address the major elements key to system redesign and long-lasting reform, describing in detail the steps needed at the community, school, district and state-level by which to achieve long-lasting reform.
Download or read book A Blueprint for Education Reform written by Connaught Coyne Marshner and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a continuation of the national debate over education reform, the 14 contributors to this book outline several approaches to reform, address a variety of current education issues, and relate parent and teacher perspectives on education. An overview by President Ronald Reagan of education reform issues is provided, followed by chapters on the importance of parental rights in schooling and the need to bring pluralism to public education through the parents' right of school choice and the elimination of majority control of school policy. Other chapters discuss the lack of classroom discipline, the need for teacher training reform, the politicization of the classroom by means of the curriculum and by teachers, the need to revitalize citizenship education, the conclusions of effective schools research, the case for a federal voucher program, issues in the educational progress of black people, the advantages of home education and delayed schooling, the grassroots parent-based effort to reform public education, and the life experiences and observations of a teacher. (DCS)
Download or read book A Blueprint for Educational Reform written by Free Congress Research and Education Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Blueprint for Reform The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act written by Department of Education (ED), Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Saturday, March 13, the Obama administration released its blueprint for revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which would ask states to adopt college- and career-ready standards and reward schools for producing dramatic gains in student achievement. The proposal challenges the nation to embrace educational standards that would put America on a path to global leadership. The blueprint provides incentives for states to adopt academic standards that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and create accountability systems that measure student growth toward meeting the goal that all children graduate and succeed in college. This blueprint builds on the significant reforms already made in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 around four areas: (1) Improving teacher and principal effectiveness to ensure that every classroom has a great teacher and every school has a great leader; (2) Providing information to families to help them evaluate and improve their children's schools, and to educators to help them improve their students' learning; (3) Implementing college- and career-ready standards and developing improved assessments aligned with those standards; and (4) Improving student learning and achievement in America's lowest-performing schools by providing intensive support and effective interventions. Incorporating and extending this framework, this blueprint for a re-envisioned federal role builds on these key priorities: (1) College- and Career-Ready Students; (2) Great Teachers and Leaders in Every School; (3) Equity and Opportunity for All Students; (4) Raise the Bar and Reward Excellence; and (5) Promote Innovation and Continuous Improvement.
Download or read book Fix Schools First written by Jack E. Bowsher and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An educator working with big corporations, Bowsher argues that schools damage children; that poverty, minorities, and low parental involvement are the result rather than the cause of poor student learning; that appropriate responsibilities need to be established for teachers and administrators; and
Download or read book The Obama Education Blueprint written by Kevin G. Welner and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publication of the NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY CENTER In March 2010, the Obama administration released A Blueprint for Reform, setting forth its proposed revisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. If enacted, the Blueprint will shape the curriculum, standards, assessments, and accountability systems of schools throughout the nation. It will also determine how and where federal education funds will be targeted, further increase federal control over K-12 education, and increase the private-sector role in the operation of public schools. In advancing this agenda, President Obama and education secretary Arne Duncan have maintained that their Blueprint recommendations are grounded in research, and in May the U.S. Department of Education issued a set of six documents presented as summaries of the research supporting their plan. As an extension of the ongoing Think Tank Review Project, the staff and Fellows of the National Education Policy Center examine these research summaries and assess how well they represent the full body of knowledge in each of the reform areas. In The Obama Education Blueprint, prominent education policy experts from across the nation offer a comprehensive analysis of the research support for the U.S. Department of Education’s plan for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This volume is designed to provide policymakers, the media, and interested citizens with what the research actually says about the administration’s proposals.
Download or read book Leading Modern Learning written by Jay McTighe and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second edition of Leading Modern Learning, A Blueprint for Vision Driven Schools authors Jay McTighe and Greg Curtis offer the reader a fully rethought version of their blueprint for major education reform. More than a simple refresh, this new edition incorporates new insights, thinking, and experiences to refine approaches to, and tools for, implementing effective modern learning practices in a department, school, or district. With new Notes From the Field elements, McTighe and Curtis highlight key observations from their work with schools, including how to avoid potential missteps, misunderstandings, and time wasters that inhibit progress when implementing reform. .
Download or read book Blueprint for School System Transformation written by Frederick M. Hess and published by R & L Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is widespread recognition that school systems need to do profoundly better, but those seeking to improve them have been persistently frustrated by popular reforms. Education leaders, policy-makers and funders lack clear guidance about the key elements and strategies necessary for effective ecosystem transformation. Would-be reformers need to understand both how these elements relate to one another, and what can be done to reduce, counteract, or overturn state regulations, local governance practices, funding systems, contractual limits, and other unquestioned practices that inhibit the growth of entrepreneurial ventures. In this volume, a team of national experts address the major elements key to system redesign and long-lasting reform, describing in detail the steps needed at the community, school, district and state-level by which to achieve long-lasting reform.
Download or read book Blueprint for Educational Reform written by Alberta Teachers' Association and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Blueprint to Reality written by Julian R. Betts and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 : blueprint for educational reform in the District of Columbia : hearing before the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, December 7, 2001.
Download or read book The Right to Learn written by Linda Darling-Hammond and published by . This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Walk to School written by Jacqueline Edelberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two gutsy moms ventured inside Nettelhorst, their neighborhood's underutilized and struggling public elementary school, the new principal asked what it would take for them to enroll their children. Stunned by her candor, they returned the next day armed with an extensive wish list. The principal read their list and said "Well, let's get started, girls! It's going to be a busy year . . . " How to Walk to School is the story—from the highs to the lows—of motivated neighborhood parents galvanizing and then organizing an entire community to take a leap of faith, transforming a challenged urban school into one of Chicago's best, virtually overnight. The fate of public education is not beyond our control. In How to Walk to School, Susan Kurland, Nettelhorst's new and entrepreneurial principal, and Jacqueline Edelberg, the neighborhood mom, provide an accessible and honest blueprint for reclaiming the great public schools our children deserve. Check out www.howtowalktoschool.com for more information.
Download or read book The Role of Business in Education Reform written by Business Roundtable. Ad Hoc Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Addicted to Reform written by John Merrow and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America's obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including "Measure What Matters," and "Embrace Teachers"—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a "big book" that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.
Download or read book Align the Design written by Nancy J. Mooney and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is our THIRD school improvement plan! Why aren't we seeing any results?" "We have all of this data, but we don't know what to do with it!" "What does this workshop have to do with the goals we set for our school? Many of today's school leaders have all the latest tools, techniques, and programs for school improvement. Unfortunately, some leaders fail to create real, sustainable results for their schools because they use one or two "flavor-of-the-month" strategies without connecting all the pieces together for real improvement. In Align the Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement, Nancy J. Mooney and Ann T. Mausbach emphasize the importance of coordinating essential school improvement processes to increase staff capacity, improve student achievement, and develop effective schools. The authors show school leaders how to use "power tools" to *Develop effective curriculum *Make the most of their school's data *Create successful school improvement plans *Implement valuable professional development sessions and workshops *Use efficient supervisory techniques *Foster leadership for school improvement Each chapter includes personal reflections from the authors and lists of touchstone texts that have inspired their efforts. At a time when school leaders are trying to translate urgent calls for higher achievement into actions that work, Align the Design provides expert guidance and practical tools that will help educators work more purposefully together to create better schools for their students.
