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Making Comprehensive School Reform Work

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Title
Making Comprehensive School Reform Work
Abstract/Description
Comprehensive school reform (CSR) has the potential to help overcome inequities in education, to provide a vehicle for a combination of state and local control, and to allow reform to permeate the classroom. It is instructive and timely to survey the research on CSR models to determine how well the programs are performing. This monograph does not attempt to synthesize the results of evaluations of individual CSR designs. Instead, it focuses on principles learned from evaluations of CSR, especially large-scale implementation of efforts of CSR designs. A section about CSR implementation reviews what is known about: (1) variations in implementation; (2) design choice; (3) principal leadership; (4) politics; (5) support from design teams; (6) resources; and (7) context. The third section considers preliminary findings from research about the effects of comprehensive school reform on student outcomes. Recommendations for implementation of CSR are synthesized, and recommendations are presented for future research. Most of the conclusions that can be drawn about CSR at present focus on implementation. They stress the importance of teacher participation, principal leadership, adequate resources, and contextual factors. An appendix describes CSR models. (Contains 173 references.) (SLD)
Author/creator
Desimone, Laura
Date
2000
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Synthesis/Overview
Keywords
Educational Change
Educational Research
Elementary Secondary Education
Equal Education
Instructional Leadership
Integrated Services
Outcomes of Education
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en No
URL
Item on ERIC (ED441915)
Citation
Desimone, L. (2000). Making Comprehensive School Reform Work (No. 112; Urban Diversity Series). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED441915
Cited in
Scale and Sustainability of Education Innovation and Improvement
Series title
Urban Diversity Series
Number
No. 112
Item sets
OB Citations - Scale and Sustainability of Education Innovation and Improvement

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