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Extending Educational Reform: From One School to Many book cover

1st Edition

Extending Educational Reform From One School to Many

By Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard, Hugh Mehan Copyright 2002
344 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many? Through qualitative data from several studies, this book... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 How Does Reform Adoption Happen? The Role of Power, Politics, and Perspective; Chapter 3 Is all Change Local? How Context Shapes Implementation; Chapter 4 Change Agents in the School Reform Process; Chapter 5 Building the Plane While it’s Flying; Chapter 6 The Life of External Reform Models; Chapter 7 Prospects for Educational Change;

Biography

Amanda Datnow is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Lea Hubbard is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Sociology Department the University of California, San Diego.

Hugh Mehan is Professor of Sociology and Director of The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Access and Teaching Excellence at the University of California, San Diego.

"A must for anyone interested in Educational Systems across the World." -- Fernand Gervais, Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Laval University & Vice-President, Teaching and Learning, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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