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Author: Ann Lieberman Publisher: Teachers College Press ISBN: 9780807734032 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
The contributors to this work, including Betty Lou Whitford, Rodman B. Webb and Linda Darling-Hammond, tell a set of stories about real schools, teachers and administrators who face district and state mandates concerning restructuring. It describes the trials and tribulations that they encounter and offers an insight into the lessons that can be learned from these individual experiences. This book provides educators and university faculty with a source guide of compelling case studies and analyses in which readers can see themselves and their contexts (or not) and learn lessons in the restructuring movement that the schools in this book had to learn for themselves.
Author: Ann Lieberman Publisher: Teachers College Press ISBN: 9780807734032 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
The contributors to this work, including Betty Lou Whitford, Rodman B. Webb and Linda Darling-Hammond, tell a set of stories about real schools, teachers and administrators who face district and state mandates concerning restructuring. It describes the trials and tribulations that they encounter and offers an insight into the lessons that can be learned from these individual experiences. This book provides educators and university faculty with a source guide of compelling case studies and analyses in which readers can see themselves and their contexts (or not) and learn lessons in the restructuring movement that the schools in this book had to learn for themselves.
Author: Fred M. Newmann Publisher: Jossey-Bass ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
This new book presents the findings of a five-year, federally funded study that examined the connection between school restructuring and student achievement. Investigating twenty-four elementary and secondary schools from twenty-two districts across the country, the researchers found that restructuring efforts fail when there is too much focus on structure and technique and not enough attention paid to the intellectual quality of student and teacher work and to the vitality of the school community. Using a wealth of examples, the authors provide a vivid picture of the conditions under which innovations in a school's organization contribute to student achievement - extending learning beyond rote memorization of isolated facts to thinking, disciplined understanding, and complex communication.
Author: Maureen T. Hallinan Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1489910948 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
Restructuring Schools presents conceptual and empirical models of school organization for promoting students' achievement. Papers by nationally recognized educational sociologists examine four dimensions of the educational process-school organization and governance, organization of students for instruction, classroom processes, and school-to-work transitions-and suggest methods to increase the effectiveness of each. The volume also explores the innovative concept of output-driven education which redirects attention to student achievement as an outcome variable.
Author: Peter Woods Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000627519 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 303
Book Description
Drawing on wide ranging research this book, originally published in 1997, explores how the policy changes of previous years were affecting primary teachers and their work at the time. Within the context of worldwide restructuring, the thoughts, feelings and activities of teachers in their daily work are examined. The core argument is that what used to be a complex but fulfilling job distinguished by professional dilemmas, which are amenable to professional skill, had become increasingly marked by tension and constraint, which frustrates teacher creativity. While some teachers found new opportunities in the ‘new’ primary school, many used strategical and micro-political activity in order to cope, while others fell victim to stress and burnout. The authors argue that teachers’ own active involvement in policy change is required if their creative potential is to be realized. The book will still be of interest to teachers in primary schools, researchers and policy makers.
Author: W. Lowe Boyd Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135721998 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Education reform has become part of a political imperative in a number of developed countries around the world. The simultaneous movement to reform schooling and the administrative structures which deliver educational services therefore needs to be studied in order to lay bare its fundamental assumptions. This movement has been labelled "restructuring" and "reform", although the words carry different meanings in different countries.; The authors question why this reconstruction occurred at the same time in different places. What common themes are emerging in the restructuring movement? And in the 1990s, where will the movement lead schooling and what essential changes will it effect? They explore these questions by examining developments in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
Author: Mike M. Milstein Publisher: Corwin ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 88
Book Description
Schools are being increasingly encouraged to "restructure" to improve education in schools. However, restructuring has many different meanings for different people. This book addresses the origins, purposes, and methods of restructuring schools and clarifies the definition of restructuring. It also advocates comprehensive change in thinking about education. Activities that promote restructuring are outlined, and information is presented on the means of developing structures and roles to accomplish restructuring. Also, the great difficulties of restructuring are explored as well as the means of assessing the effectiveness of restructuring efforts. Chapter topics include defining restructuring, clarifying purposes, developing structures and roles to serve purposes, promoting supportive beliefs and behaviors, providing resources, changing schools' issues and strategies; assessing restructuring efforts, and initiating activities to promote restructuring. A list of suggested readings and resources is included. (Contains 39 references.) (JPT)
Author: Michael Cohen Publisher: National Governors' Association ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
The widening mismatch between the skills of the work force and the skill demands of the workplace underlie the need for school restructuring. Within the categories of school-level, school-district, and state-level issues, a discussion about and suggestions for restructuring U.S. education in order to improve its productivity and student acquisition of higher order thinking skills comprise the crux of this document. Educational goals, the structure of knowledge, instructional tasks and activities, instructional group size and composition, and instructional time are reviewed and analyzed as school-level issues. School district role, central office functions, the balance between centralized control and local autonomy, present and alternative governance structures, personnel policies and practices, and collective bargaining are analyzed within the rubric of school district issues. A discussion of state-level issues suggests setting educational goals, stimulating local innovation, and rethinking state accountability systems. In response to the educational challenges that schools face, fundamental changes in the way local districts and states operate will determine the way schools are structured, instruction is provided, and staff roles and responsibilities are defined. (24 references) (JAM)
Author: Hedley Beare Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780750701211 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Education reform has become part of a political imperative in a number of developed countries, including the USA, Japan and the UK. This book questions why this reconstruction occurred at the same time in different places and asks, what common themes are emerging in the restructuring movement?
Author: Valerie E. Lee Publisher: ISBN: 9780807740552 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
This book demonstrates empirical links with achievement and investigates how restructuring relates to school size, teachers' attitudes toward students, and how teachers press their students to work hard and succeed.
Author: Ann Lieberman
Author: Ann Lieberman
Author: Fred M. Newmann
Author: Maureen T. Hallinan
Author: Peter Woods
Author: W. Lowe Boyd
Author: Joseph Murphy
Author: Mike M. Milstein
Author: Michael Cohen
Author: Hedley Beare
Author: Valerie E. Lee