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Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better

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Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
Abstract/Description
As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than “implementing fast and learning slow,” they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to “learn fast to implement well.” Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, the authors show how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education. Organized around six core principles, the book shows how “networked improvement communities” can bring together researchers and practitioners to accelerate learning in key areas of education. Examples include efforts to address the high rates of failure among students in community college remedial math courses and strategies for improving feedback to novice teachers. Learning to Improve offers a new paradigm for research and development in education that promises to be a powerful driver of improvement for the nation’s schools and colleges.
Author/creator
Bryk, Anthony S.
Gomez, Louis M.
Grunow, Alicia
LeMahieu, Paul G.
Date
2015
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Textbook
en Methodological
IRE Approach/Concept
Improvement Science
Networked Improvement Community (NIC)
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
ISBN
978-1-61250-791-0
URL
Publisher Webpage
Carnegie Foundation Webpage for Book (with Hyperlinked Resources)
Other related resources/entities
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Learning to Improve Glossary
Citation
Bryk, A. S., Gomez, L. M., Grunow, A., & LeMahieu, P. G. (2015). Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better. Harvard Education Press. https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/learning-to-improve
Cited in
Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education
Measurement for Improvement
Cross-National Research on Continuous Improvement
Measurement for Improvement in Education
Place
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Item sets
Textbooks
Handbook Chapter 20 Citations
OB Citations - Cross National Research on Continuous Improvement
OB Citations - Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Evaluating Improvement Networks
OB Citations - Measurement for Improvement in Education
Ob Citations - Research–Practice Partnerships in Education Within the United States
OB Citations - Traditions of Quality Improvement in Education

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2014 AERA Distinguished Lecture: Accelerating How We Learn to Improve Journal Article
Improving: Joining Improvement Science to Networked Communities [AERA Distinguished Lecture] Presentation
Learning to Improve Glossary Glossary
Traditions of Quality Improvement in Education Bibliography

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