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Lessons From New American Schools' Scale-Up Phase
Prospects for Bringing Designs to Multiple Schools
New American Schools was established in 1991 to help schools transform themselves into high-performing organizations. This report is a formative assessment of the first two years (1995-1997) of the scale-up phase, during which NAS partnered with 10 jurisdictions to implement design-based programs for improving student performance. A series of lessons emerged from this analysis: (1) The effort at school reform is complex because of the multiple actors involved. (2) Design teams do not accomplish implementation by themselves but only with the cooperation of schools and districts. (3) Teachers found stable school and district leadership and clear signals about the effort's priority to be important. Perhaps the most important lesson is that there still are no silver bullets for ensuring the implementation of reforms, but several districts have made significant progress in the two-year period.
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Pages: 161
ISBN/EAN: 0-8330-2632-1
Contents
Preface PDF
Figures PDF
Tables PDF
Summary PDF
Acknowledgments PDF
Abbreviations PDF
Chapter One:
Introduction PDF
Chapter Two:
History of NAS and the Scale-Up Strategy PDF
Chapter Three:
Research Approach and Methods PDF
Chapter Four:
Findings on Progress Toward Implementation PDF
Chapter Five:
The Influence of the Selection Process and School Climate PDF
Chapter Six:
Influence of Design and Team Factors PDF
Chapter Seven:
Influence of School Structural and Site Factors PDF
Chapter Eight:
Influence of Jurisdictional and Institutional Factors PDF
Chapter Nine:
Caveats and Conclusions PDF
Appendix A:
Background History of New American Schools PDF
Appendix B:
Descriptions and Designs PDF
Bibliography PDF
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