Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Improving Linkages Between Research and Educational Reform
Author: Improving Linkages Between Research and Educational Reform
Author: Improving Linkages Between Research and Education Reform
Author: Research and Education Reform
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309047293
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in the U.S. Department of Education has a mandate for expanding knowledge of teaching and learning and for improving education in this country. This book focuses on how OERI can better fulfill that mission in light of what is known about why prior education reforms have often failed, what is needed to enhance the effectiveness of such efforts, and what education research and development can contribute to better schools. The history, mission, governance, organization, functions, operations, and budgets of OERI are analyzed. Recommendations are made for restructuring OERI, expanding funding, involving scholars from many fields, and engaging teachers and school principals in improvement efforts.
International Action Research
Author: Sandra HollingsworthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135715343
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
How groups of people, from various educational settings worlwide, conduct research together is the subject of this book. Rather than wait for top- down policy changes in education, many practitioners are conducting research in order to implement reform from the bottom-up, the aim of this research being to progress action necessary for educational reform. The authors look at different aspects and the impact of action research on educational reform around the world, including: how do geography and philosophy affect differences on this work worldwide?; what is the political nature of groups currently taking action to improve education?; and what are the tensions between personal and instructional changes that come from participating in action research? The text also considers the effects of action research on changes in the professions including education, social work, nursing and management.
Improving Results for Children and Families
Author: Margaret C. WangPublisher: IAP
ISBN: 1607525321
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
(published in cooperation with the Laboratory for Student Success)
Labor of Learning
Author: Alexander SidorkinPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9087907591
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
This book is about the end of an era in education. It argues that schooling as we know it will cease to exist and be replaced with something else.
Education Research and Reform
Author: Tommy M. TomlinsonPublisher: OECD
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The role of governments in the operation of education research and development systems is under critical scrutiny throughout the developed world. The introductory chapter presents the main themes of a seminar held in 1992 and outlines challenges for further work. The next 10 chapters focus on education research and development issues: (1) "Educational Research Policy in the United States: Background and Overview for the Joint OERI/OECD Seminar" (Tommy M. Tomlinson); (2) "Trends, Issues and Problems in Educational Research in a Group of OECD Countries" (Desmond L. Nuttall); (3) "The OERI/CERI Seminar on Educational Research and Development: A Synthesis and Commentary" (Michael Huberman); (4) "Research and Education Reform: A Study of the Federal Role in United States' Education Research and Development" (Katherine Bick; Gregg B. Jackson); (5) "Changes in the Relationship between Educational Research and Policy: The Case of the Netherlands" (Paul M. M. van Oijen); (6) "Teachers as Critical Consumers of Research" (Michael G. Fullan); (7) "Near the Chalk Face: New Approaches to Research for Education Renovation" (Bob W. Connell); (8) "Uniting Producers and Consumers: Challenges in Creating and Utilizing Educational Research and Development" (Susan H. Fuhrman); (9) "In Search of New Structures and Procedures for Organizing Government Funded Education Research and Development" (Thomas K. Glennan, Jr.); and (10) "Afterwards: Research and Reform in the United States" (Tommy M. Tomlinson). Biographies of the 11 authors follow the articles. (CK)
Learning to Improve
Author: Anthony S. BrykPublisher: Harvard Education Press
ISBN: 161250793X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book 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.
Inventing Better Schools
Author: Phillip C. SchlechtyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0787959065
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Schlechty shows both educators and parents how to envision reform and design quality educational systems. He explains how the visioning process must be rooted in real shared beliefs, how mission statements must unpack visions into concrete goals that are connected to action, and how the results of reform can be usefully assessed. Drawing on the author's vast experience in the day-to-day work of implementing school reform, Inventing Better Schools offers new approaches for setting standards and ensuring accountability--and includes samples of actual mission statements and strategic plans of successful school districts.