Organizing Schools for Improvement
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Organizing Schools for Improvement

Lessons from Chicago

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eBook - PDF

Organizing Schools for Improvement

Lessons from Chicago

About this book

In 1988, the Chicago public school system decentralized, granting parents and communities significant resources and authority to reform their schools in dramatic ways. To track the effects of this bold experiment, the authors of Organizing Schools for Improvement collected a wealth of data on elementary schools in Chicago. Over a seven-year period they identified one hundred elementary schools that had substantially improved—and one hundred that had not. What did the successful schools do to accelerate student learning?

The authors of this illuminating book identify a comprehensive set of practices and conditions that were key factors for improvement, including school leadership, the professional capacity of the faculty and staff, and a student-centered learning climate. In addition, they analyze the impact of social dynamics, including crime, critically examining the inextricable link between schools and their communities. Putting their data onto a more human scale, they also chronicle the stories of two neighboring schools with very different trajectories. The lessons gleaned from this groundbreaking study will be invaluable for anyone involved with urban education.

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Yes, you can access Organizing Schools for Improvement by Anthony S. Bryk,Penny Bender Sebring,Elaine Allensworth,John Q. Easton,Stuart Luppescu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Prologue: A Tale of Two Schools
  4. Introduction: A Rare Opportunity to Learn about School Improvement
  5. 1. Developing Appropriate Outcome Indicators
  6. 2. A Framework of Essential Supports
  7. 3. Testing the Framework of the Essential Supports
  8. 4. Probing Deeper: Organizational Mechanisms
  9. 5. Trust, Size, and Stability: Key Enablers
  10. 6. The Influences of Community Context
  11. Summary and Conclusions
  12. Appendix A: Socioeconomic Status Factor
  13. Appendix B: A Value-Added Indicator: A School’s Academic Productivity Profile
  14. Appendix C: Overview of the Fourteen Indicators for the Five Essential Supports
  15. Appendix D: Probability Experiment to Evaluate Results Presented in Figure 3.3
  16. Appendix E: Interview Questions from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
  17. Appendix F: Coefficients from Analyses of Leadership in Chapter 4
  18. Appendix G: Value-Added Replication Results for 1997 through 2005
  19. Appendix H: Efforts of the Consortium on Chicago School Research to Build More Productive Ties between Research, Practice, and Policy to Improve Practice
  20. Notes
  21. References
  22. Index