While the study suggests that public
support for school reforms changes with added information about school quality, in most instances, teacher opinion is unaffected.
So our
plans for school reform, welfare reform and strengthening families plans which might once have been seen as just socially desirable in the age of austerity become economically essential.
This means principals will need to embrace the changes to come and be proactive about ensuring that principal leadership is recognized as a key
lever for school reform.
I think it's wrong to
hope for school reform to «win» so that we can all see its massive failures... what about the waste of human potential?
In response to the dire warnings in the 1983 report, standards, testing, and accountability became the national
agenda for school reform.
The authors found, in case - study research on five community organizing groups
working for school reform, that community organizing develops public accountability.
In many cases, city leaders, recognizing that an effectively run school system is critical to the overall success of the city, are the leading
voices for school reform.
That causes some real
problems for school reform, since advocacy, research, and policy are the tools that reformers use to try to drive systemic change.
Urban school systems, frequently with large numbers of underperforming students from low - income families, are fertile
areas for school reform.
If I read the phrase «a national
model for school reform» one more time in the context of rapid charter expansion, I may scream.
Putting Students argues that in
order for school reform to be effective, students need to participate in the school improvement process.
In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Warren Simmons, executive director of the Annenberg
Institute for School Reform at Brown University shares his insights on improving urban schools in America.
The Community Organizing and School Reform Conference was held at HGSE on March 23 and 24 to coincide with the recent publication of A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a
Catalyst for School Reform by Associate Professor Mark Warren, Lecturer Karen Mapp, and the Community Organizing and School Reform Project.
The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers is
calling for the School Reform Commission to place a moratorium on new charter schools until the financial crisis that has consistently plagued our school district has been resolved.
UChicago CCSR The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research builds the capacity
for school reform by conducting research that identifies what matters for student success and school improvement.
Further, collaborators with SDE must come to a consensus on the following matters: should states create top - down or bottom - up
capacity for school reform?
The Philadelphia Student Union has been working for more than a decade to promote a student - inclusive
vision for school reform.
As my Fordham colleague Chester Finn recently observed, longstanding bipartisan support for the education reform agenda has collapsed: «As Democrats pander to teachers» unions and minority grievances and Republicans focus on social issues and culture wars, little energy
remains for school reform.»
The Grandfather Education Report This is a somewhat radical view on the state of education in the US and the
need for school reform.
«The ultimate hope is to broaden the ways in which we think about the
possibilities for school reform, so in a sense each of these commentaries lays out a vision, but in laying out a vision, it challenges how we do things now,» says Assistant Professor Jal Mehta.
Information Fuels Support
for School Reform Facts about local district performance alter public thinking By Michael B. Henderson, William G. Howell and Paul E. Peterson
But if having a favorable classmate environment were a part of KIPP's formula for success, that finding would have powerful
implications for school reform generally.
PHILADELPHIA — «The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers is calling
for the School Reform Commission to place a moratorium on new charter schools until the financial crisis that has consistently plagued our school district has been resolved.
The national picture for eighth - grade reading was largely the same: a slight uptick in performance since 2007, but no gain in the seven years when President George W. Bush's
program for school reform was in high gear.
Scott, B. «The Role of School Governance Efficacy in Building an Equity
Context for School Reform,» IDRA Newsletter (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association, June - July 2009).
But one Democrat has stepped forward to support prop 32: Gloria Romero, California Director of
Democrats for School Reform: «Unless we're willing to tackle how the money flows,» says Romero, «we're not going to ever see education reform in California.»