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Author: Nelson Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 48
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In "Redefining the School District in America," Nelson Smith reexamines existing recovery school districts (RSDs)--entities in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Michigan charged with running and turning around their state's worst schools--and assembles the most comprehensive catalog of similar initiatives underway and under consideration elsewhere. Among more than twenty recommendations gleaned from both failed and successful attempts to create and implement RSDs, Smith recommends that those who go down the turnaround path should: (1) Call your lawyer. A close reading of the state constitution is essential. Some states are so wedded to traditional forms of "local control" that setting up a state district will require fancy legal footwork, if not a constitutional amendment; (2) Decide the endgame--for both schools and the turnaround district. Apart from setting goals for school performance, other decisions must be addressed--and the earlier the better; (3) Expect course corrections. Running a statewide district is a huge, complex undertaking full of political, financial, and logistical challenges--not to mention the myriad crises and complications that always arise in institutions serving real children. Sometimes even turnaround efforts need to turn around; and (4) Give the locals a chance. After taking over failing schools, reformers sent by the state may want to clean house and start fresh with a whole new cast of characters. Yet incumbent staff should be given the opportunity to apply for work under the new arrangement and prove that, under different circumstances, they can shine. As with everything in education reform, when it comes to the design of turnaround districts, details truly matter. [For "Redefining the School District in Tennessee. Part One of a Three-Part Series," see ED560000; and for "Redefining the School District in Michigan. Part Two of a Three-Part Series," see ED559995.].
Author: Nelson Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
In "Redefining the School District in America," Nelson Smith reexamines existing recovery school districts (RSDs)--entities in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Michigan charged with running and turning around their state's worst schools--and assembles the most comprehensive catalog of similar initiatives underway and under consideration elsewhere. Among more than twenty recommendations gleaned from both failed and successful attempts to create and implement RSDs, Smith recommends that those who go down the turnaround path should: (1) Call your lawyer. A close reading of the state constitution is essential. Some states are so wedded to traditional forms of "local control" that setting up a state district will require fancy legal footwork, if not a constitutional amendment; (2) Decide the endgame--for both schools and the turnaround district. Apart from setting goals for school performance, other decisions must be addressed--and the earlier the better; (3) Expect course corrections. Running a statewide district is a huge, complex undertaking full of political, financial, and logistical challenges--not to mention the myriad crises and complications that always arise in institutions serving real children. Sometimes even turnaround efforts need to turn around; and (4) Give the locals a chance. After taking over failing schools, reformers sent by the state may want to clean house and start fresh with a whole new cast of characters. Yet incumbent staff should be given the opportunity to apply for work under the new arrangement and prove that, under different circumstances, they can shine. As with everything in education reform, when it comes to the design of turnaround districts, details truly matter. [For "Redefining the School District in Tennessee. Part One of a Three-Part Series," see ED560000; and for "Redefining the School District in Michigan. Part Two of a Three-Part Series," see ED559995.].
Author: Nelson Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 37
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What happens when policymakers create statewide school districts to turn around their worst-performing public schools? In Louisiana and Tennessee, Recovery School Districts (RSDs) have made modest-to-strong progress for kids and serve as national models for what the future of education governance might hold. In the Great Lakes State, the story is more complicated. In "Redefining the School District in Michigan," Nelson Smith examines the progress of the Education Achievement Authority (EAA). The EAA shares basic features with its brethren in Louisiana and Tennessee in that all three are charged with resuscitating the state's worst schools within the confines of a separate, autonomous school district. But unlike the RSD in the Bayou State--which comprises over eighty schools statewide--the EAA is so far a smaller effort; it is responsible for just fifteen schools, all in Detroit, with further expansion stymied. Like Tennessee's Achievement School District (ASD), the EAA was created in response to the Race to the Top competition. Yet it is an interesting hybrid of both existing models, combining the governance reforms of the RSD and ASD with a big push for competency-based learning. States that want to embrace this approach to school turnarounds need to create conditions that are essential to success, Fordham's report concludes. Michigan's effort--though laudable and in many ways heroic--was hobbled from the start from too many compromises and too little political support. [For "Redefining the School District in Tennessee. Part One of a Three-Part Series," see ED560000; and for "Redefining the School District in America. Part Three of a Three-Part Series," see ED559998].
Author: Nelson Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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As the challenges of education governance loom ever larger and the dysfunction and incapacity of the traditional K-12 system reveal themselves as major roadblocks to urgently needed reforms across that system, many have asked, "What's the alternative?" Part of the answer is the Recovery School District, a new state-created entity that that has the potential to turn around schools that have--often for decades--produced dreadful results under district control. This is both a governance innovation and an imaginative response to pressure (from No Child Left Behind, from Secretary Arne Duncan, and from many other sources) to transform the nation's most egregious "dropout factories" into providers of quality education and sources of worthy school choices for children who urgently need them. "Redefining the School District in Tennessee," by Nelson Smith, examines the progress of the Tennessee Achievement School District (ASD), a statewide model for school turnarounds based on Louisiana's pioneering Recovery School District. The ASD is now leading the charge in developing talented building and classroom leaders, luring high-quality charter-management organizations to The Volunteer State, and incubating new school-choice networks. It runs some schools directly and entrusts others to external charter operators. But the goal remains the same: turn the bottom 5 percent of schools into high-achieving ones (top 25 percent) within five years. Will this happen? ASD is too new to have produced definitive evidence. But its forerunner in New Orleans, where the percentage of students performing on grade level continues to rise, demonstrates what's possible. This is the first of a three-part series focused on recovery school districts. The second will target similar efforts in Michigan and Virginia; the third will review and distill national lessons from all of these endeavors. [For "Redefining the School District in Michigan. Part Two of a Three-Part Series," see ED559995; and for "Redefining the School District in America. Part Three of a Three-Part Series," see ED559998.].
Author: Louise Erdrich Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063064189 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 272
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This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on their land, life continues much as it always has. But the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever—but that will eventually lead Omakayas to discover her calling. By turns moving and humorous, this novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a gifted writer. The beloved and essential Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich includes The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence, The Porcupine Year, Chickadee, and Makoons.
Author: Thomas Hatch Publisher: Corwin Press ISBN: 1071838504 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 181
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Improve Schools and Transform Education In order for educational systems to change, we must reevaluate deep-seated beliefs about learning, teaching, schooling, and race that perpetuate inequitable opportunities and outcomes. Hatch, Corson, and Gerth van den Berg challenge the narrative when it comes to the "grammar of schooling"--or the conventional structures, practices, and beliefs that define educational experiences for so many children—to cast a new vision of what school could be. The book addresses current systemic problems and solutions as it: Highlights global examples of successful school change Describes strategies that improve educational opportunities and performance Explores promising approaches in developing new learning opportunities Outlines conditions for supporting wide-scale educational improvement This provocative book approaches education reform by highlighting what works, while also demonstrating what can be accomplished if we redefine conventional schools. We can make the schools we have more efficient, more effective, and more equitable, all while creating powerful opportunities to support all aspects of students’ development. "You won’t find a better book on system change in education than this one. We learn why schools don’t change; how they can improve; what it takes to change a system; and, in the final analysis, the possibilities of system change. Above all, The Education We Need renders complexity into clarity as the writing is so clear and compelling. A powerful read on a topic of utmost importance." ~Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/Universtiy of Toronto "I cannot recommend this book highly enough – Tom tackles long-standing and emerging educational issues in new ways with an impressive understanding of the challenging complexities, but also feasible possibilities, for ensuring excellence and equity for all students." ~Carol Campbell, Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Author: David Osborne Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1632869918 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 433
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From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.
Author: Wayne Au Publisher: Gatekeeper Press ISBN: 1662946333 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 532
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From book bans, to teacher firings, to racist content standards, the politics of teaching race and culture in schools have shifted dramatically in recent years. This 3rd edition of Rethinking Multicultural Education has been greatly revised and expanded to reflect these changing times, including sections on “Intersectional Identities,” “Anti-Racist Teaching Across the Curriculum,” “Teaching for Black Lives,” and “K-12 Ethnic Studies,” among others. Practical, rich in story, and analytically sharp, Rethinking Multicultural Education can help current and future educators as they seek to bring racial and cultural justice into their own classrooms.
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