Systemwide efforts to improve student achievement / edited by Kenneth K. Wong and Stacey A. Rutledge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wong, Kenneth K., 1955-

Rutledge, Stacy A.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Research in educational policy

Research in educational policy : local, national and global perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs--United States.

School improvement programs.

School districts.

United States.

School districts--United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Greenwich, Conn. : IAP-Information Age Pub. Inc., 2006.

Contents:

Introduction : rethinking strategies to improve urban school systems / Kenneth K. Wong and Stacey A. Rutledge

State-level education reform : putting all the pieces together / Robert K. Yin and Darnella Davis

Organizational alignment within the Department of Defense Dependents Schools : a course for high academic achievement? / Claire E. Smrekar and Pearl Sims

Implementing supplemental educational services : implications for school districts and educational opportunity / Gail L. Sunderman and James S. Kim

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

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

What makes small learning communities work : toward standards for practice / Diana Oxley

When technology supports teachers work : implementation of Houston's teacher tools online initiative / Betsy Broyles Breier ... [et al.]

District policy as an uncertain catalyst for school change : school sanctioning in urban high schools / Dorothea Anagnostopoulos and Stacey A. Rutledge

District initiatives to improve curriculum and instruction : views of administrators on Houston's teacher tools online initiative / Kenneth K. Wong ... [et al.]

Developing district-intermediary partnerships to promote instructional improvement : early experiences and lessons about the institute for learning / Julie A. Marsh ... [et al.]

Peer coaching as a strategy to build instructional capacity in low performing schools / Kenneth K. Wong and Anna Nicotera.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1593112246

1593112254

OCLC:

62127801