What I find fascinating in Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools is Jack's personal insight into the people and pressures that shaped
federal school improvement policies.
Just for starters, it would appear that the waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and
school improvement policies that apply to charter schools as well as district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.
Strategic planning, organizational change,
school improvement policies, procedures, and strategies
They can co-create
school improvement policy, participate in adopting school improvement policy, and be meaningfully involved in approving programs, services, and activities to implement school improvement.