Seeing complexity in public education : problems, possibilities, and success for all / Donald J. Peurach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peurach, Donald J., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public schools--United States.

Public schools.

School improvement programs--United States.

School improvement programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a period of unprecedented pressure to reform education in the United States, two questions stand out: What is involved in the work of transforming underperforming schools into higher performing schools? And what makes this work so difficult? 'Seeing Complexity in Public Education' examines these questions in light of the history of the Success for All Foundation, an organization that has collaborated with thousands of elementary schools across the US to enact a common design for comprehensive school reform.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Problems; Solutions; The Success for All Foundation; The Story; Analytic Framework; Complexity; 1. Designing; Beginnings; The Organizational Blueprint; Challenges, Redefined; Gathering Enthusiasm; Gathering Criticism; Questions; 2. Supporting; The Program Adoption Process; The Replication Process; Compounding Potential, Compounding Risk; Program as Classroom; 3. Scaling Up; Emergence and Co-Evolution; Exploding Growth; Exploding Risk; A Perfect Storm; Recapturing the Program; 4. Continuously Improving; The Development Agenda; The Development Organization

The Development ProcessRevolution via Evolution; New Problems Within, New Problems Beyond; Living on the Edge; 5. Sustaining; Evolving to Evolve; Seeing and Interpreting; Strategizing and Adapting; The More Things Change . . .; Time Capsule: Advice and Predictions; 6. Seeing; Reprise; Reform; Renewal; Appendix: My Learning; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613215765

1-283-21576-4

0-19-983792-9

OCLC:

747103255