Seeing complexity in public education : problems, possibilities, and success for all

Seeing complexity in public education : problems, possibilities, and success for all / Donald J. Peurach.

In a period of unprecedented pressure to reform education in the United States, two questions stand out: What is involved in the work of transforming underperforming schools into higher performing schools? And what makes this work so difficult? 'Seeing Complexity in Public Education' exami...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peurach, Donald J., 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Public schools > United States.
School improvement programs > United States.
EDUCATION > Finance.
Public schools
School improvement programs
United States
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Problems""; ""Solutions""; ""The Success for All Foundation""; ""The Story""; ""Analytic Framework""; ""Complexity""; ""1. Designing""; ""Beginnings""; ""The Organizational Blueprint""; ""Challenges, Redefined""; ""Gathering Enthusiasm""; ""Gathering Criticism""; ""Questions""; ""2. Supporting""; ""The Program Adoption Process""; ""The Replication Process""; ""Compounding Potential, Compounding Risk""; ""Program as Classroom""; ""3. Scaling Up""; ""Emergence and Co-Evolution""; ""Exploding Growth""; ""Exploding Risk""; ""A Perfect Storm""
  • ""Recapturing the Program""""4. Continuously Improving""; ""The Development Agenda""; ""The Development Organization""; ""The Development Process""; ""Revolution via Evolution""; ""New Problems Within, New Problems Beyond""; ""Living on the Edge""; ""5. Sustaining""; ""Evolving to Evolve""; ""Seeing and Interpreting""; ""Strategizing and Adapting""; ""The More Things Change . . .""; ""Time Capsule: Advice and Predictions""; ""6. Seeing""; ""Reprise""; ""Reform""; ""Renewal""; ""Appendix: My Learning""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""
  • ""J""""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""o""; ""p""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""v""; ""w""

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