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Designing better schools for culturally and linguistically diverse children : a science of performance model for research / by Stuart McNaughton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNaughton, S. (Stuart), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children of minorities--Education--New Zealand.
- Children of minorities.
- School improvement programs--New Zealand.
- School improvement programs.
- Education--Research.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust 'science of performance' model of school change based on a specified process of research and development in local contexts, this book:lays out the traditions of optimism and pessimism about effective schooling for at-risk students reviews the international and national evidence for the effectiveness of schools and school systems in reducing disparities in
- Contents:
- Ongoing optimism, persistent pessimism and their roots
- Weighing up the evidence
- Explaining our limitations
- Optimism in the detail
- Problems for an optimist: Matthew effects
- What is being effective?: acceleration and other problems
- Summer learning
- Sustaining change
- Scaling up change
- Nested and coherent systems
- A science of performance
- Notes on a cautious optimism: making more effective systems.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-85916-0
- 1-283-12702-4
- 9786613127020
- 1-136-85917-9
- 0-203-83582-4
- 9780203835821
- OCLC:
- 729166501
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