Overview
- Uniquely examines failure of turnaround efforts in schools in the United States
- Presents a comprehensive review of school reform attempts 2009-2015
- Provides new understanding of reasons for school failure
- Reviews ideas in the core of schooling: curriculum, instruction, and assessment
Part of the book series: Education, Equity, Economy (EEEC, volume 6)
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This volume provides an analysis of what we know about turning around "failing" schools in the United States. It starts with an in-depth examination of the barriers that hinder action on turnaround work.
The book analyses the reasons why some schools that find themselves in serious academic trouble fail in their efforts to turn themselves around. Beginning with a discussion of what may best be described as "lethal" reasons or the most powerful explanation for failed reform initiatives, which include an absence of attention to student care and support; a near absence of attention to curriculum and instruction; the firing of the wrong people. Covered in this volume are "critical" explanations for failed turnaround efforts such as failure to attend to issues of sustainability, and "significant" explanations for failed turnaround efforts such as the misuse of test data.
The volume concludes by examining what can be done to overcome problems that cause failure for turnaround schools and reviewing ideas in the core technology of schooling: curriculum, instruction, and assessment. As well as exploring problems associated with the leadership and management of schools to see where improvement is possible and an analysis of opportunities found in relationships between schools and their external partners such as parents and community members.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Explaining the Failure of School Turnaround
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Front Matter
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Moving Ahead
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: School Turnaround Policies and Practices in the US
Book Subtitle: Learning from Failed School Reform
Authors: Joseph F. Murphy, Joshua F. Bleiberg
Series Title: Education, Equity, Economy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01434-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01433-9Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01434-6Published: 12 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2364-835X
Series E-ISSN: 2364-8368
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 170
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Curriculum Studies, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Schools and Schooling