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Improvement by Design: The Promise of Better Schools

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Improvement by Design: The Promise of Better Schools
Abstract/Description
One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation’s notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems. Various programs have tried to do that, but only a few have succeeded. Improvement by Design looks at three different programs, seeking to understand why two of them—America’s Choice and Success for All—worked, and why the third—Accelerated Schools Project—did not. The authors identify four critical puzzles that the successful programs were able to solve: design, implementation, improvement, and sustainability. Pinpointing the specific solutions that clearly improved instruction, they identify the key elements that all successful reform programs share. Offering urgently needed guidance for state and local school systems as they attempt to respond to future reform proposals, Improvement by Design gets America one step closer to truly successful education systems.
Author/creator
Cohen, David K.
Peurach, Donald J.
Glazer, Joshua L.
Gates, Karen E.
Goldin, Simona
Date
2013
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Theoretical
en Textbook
Featured case/project
America’s Choice
Success for All Foundation (SFAF)
Accelerated Schools Project
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
ISBN
978-0-226-08941-6
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (University of Chicago Press)
Citation
Cohen, D. K., Peurach, D. J., Glazer, J. L., Gates, K. E., & Goldin, S. (2013). Improvement by Design: The Promise of Better Schools. University of Chicago Press.
Cited in
The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement
Coherent Instructional Systems at the School and School System Levels in the United States
Scale and Sustainability of Education Innovation and Improvement
Item sets
Oxford Bibliography: The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement
OB Citations - Coherent Instructional Systems at the School and School System Levels in the United States
OB Citations - Scale and Sustainability of Education Innovation and Improvement

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