Success for all: Improving the Quality of Implementation of Whole-School Change Through the Use of a National Reform Network

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Title: Success for all: Improving the Quality of Implementation of Whole-School Change Through the Use of a National Reform Network
Abstract/Description: The role and importance of national reform network participation in the implementation of one of the most successful U.S. whole-school reform efforts--Success for ALL (SFA)--is profiled here. The paper explores this educational network beyond professional development and examines the relationship between participation in SFA's national reform network activities and the quality of program implementation. Part 1 briefly describes the SFA model for school change and its major components. Then, after presenting a theoretical framework for understanding educational networks and how they can be used in supporting whole-school change, the analysis turns to how network activities are used to facilitate quality implementation of SFA. Two types of network activities are explored: (1) participation in a national conference; and (2) participation in local support network activities. The findings illuminate key connections between network participation and the quality implementation of whole-school change. It is suggested that national reform network activities play a key role in the development and expansion of whole-school change models. Appended is a list of the variables explored under the headings outcome measures, program structure, and reading curriculum/strategies.
Author/creator: Cooper, Robert; Slavin, Robert E.; Madden, Nancy A.
Date: 1998
In publication: Education and Urban Society
Volume: 30
Issue: 3
Pages: 385-408
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Language: en
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 0013-1245
DOI: 10.1177/0013124598030003006
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals); Item on ERIC (ED420107)
Citation: Cooper, R., Slavin, R. E., & Madden, N. A. (1998). Success for all: Improving the Quality of Implementation of Whole-School Change Through the Use of a National Reform Network. Education and Urban Society, 30(3), 385–408. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013124598030003006
Cited in: Scale and Sustainability of Education Innovation and Improvement

Item sets: OB Citations - Scale and Sustainability of Education Innovation and Improvement

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