Strategic Priorities for School Improvement: No. 6 in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight Series (HEL Spotlight Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934742619 ISBN 13: 9781934742617

Publisher: Harvard Education Press, 2010

Synopsis

Organized around the four key areas outlined in the U. S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top program, Strategic Priorities for School Improvement presents a collection of seminal articles on standards and assessment; using data to improve learning; recruiting and retaining great teachers and leaders; and turning around failing schools.

Contributors include Karin Chenoweth, Stacey Childress, Elizabeth A. City, Rachel E. Curtis, Richard F. Elmore, Susan Moore Johnson, Ellen Moir, Richard J. Murnane, W. James Popham, Robert Rothman, Alexander Russo, D. Brent Stephens, and Nancy Walser.

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From the Back Cover

This sixth volume in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight series presents a collection of seminal articles on the four key areas outlined by the Obama administration as criteria for states’ entry in the Race to the Top competition and as strategic priorities for future education reform:

• Standards and assessment
• Using data to improve instruction
• Developing great teachers and leaders
• Turning around failing schools

“[These] four major issues . . . reflect an accurate understanding of the next level of work states and districts must undertake if the initial promise of standards-based reform is to be realized.

“After twenty years of experience there is very little pushback to the core ideas of the standards movement . . . There is widespread recognition, however, that it is one thing to enunciate these principles and quite another to be able to implement them in ways that will genuinely enable all students to leave high school college- and/or career-ready.

“While there are no magic bullets for educational improvement, the Obama administration is betting that the states that adopt more rigorous standards and richer assessments, develop more powerful data systems, invest in the development of great teachers and leaders, and aggressively focus on turning around their lowest-performing schools will show the most progress in improving student performance in the next decade.

“The thoughtful essays in this volume can provide useful guidance to policymakers and practitioners as they move to address these four areas for improvement.” — Robert B. Schwartz, Academic Dean and William Henry Bloomberg Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Contributors include Karin Chenoweth, Stacey Childress, Elizabeth A. City, Rachel E. Curtis, Richard F. Elmore, Susan Moore Johnson, Ellen Moir, Richard J. Murnane, W. James Popham, Robert Rothman, Alexander Russo, D. Brent Stephens, and Nancy Walser.

Caroline T. Chauncey is the editor of the Harvard Education Letter and assistant director of Harvard Education Publishing Group.

About the Author

Caroline T. Chauncey is the editor of the Harvard Education Letter and assistant director of Harvard Education Publishing Group.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Education Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1934742619
• ISBN 13: 9781934742617
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Walser Nancy, Chauncey Caroline