Organizing Schools for Improvement Lessons from Chicago

Name: Organizing Schools for Improvement Lessons from Chicago
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ISBN: 9780226078007

ISBN-10: 0226078000

ISBN-13: 9780226078007

Edition: 2009

Authors: Anthony S. Bryk, Penny Bender Sebring, Elaine Allensworth, Stuart Luppescu, John Q. Easton

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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 ofOrganizing Schools for Improvementcollected a wealth of data on elementary schools in Chicago. Over a seven-year period they identified one hundred elementary schools that had substantially improvedand 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…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/14/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

He is a Professor of Education at the University of Chicago and Director of its Center for School Improvement.



Acknowledgments


Prologue: A Tale of Two Schools


Introduction: A Rare Opportunity to Learn about School Improvement



Developing appropriate outcome indicators



A framework of essential supports



Testing the framework of the essential supports



Probing deeper: organizational mechanisms



Trust, size, and stability: key enablers



The influences of community context


Summary and Conclusions



Socioeconomic Status Factor



A Value-Added Indicator: A School's Academic Productivity Profile



Overview of the Fourteen Indicators for the Five Essential Supports



Probability Experiment to Evaluate Results Presented in Figure 3.3



Interview Questions from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods



Coefficients from Analyses of Leadership in Chapter 4



Value-Added Replication Results for 1997 through 2005



Efforts of the Consortium on Chicago School Research to Build More Productive Ties between Research, Practice, and Policy to Improve Practice


Notes


References


Index