Organizing Schools for Improvement
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Organizing Schools for Improvement by Anthony S Bryk
In 1988 the Chicago public school system decentralized, granting parents and communities significant resources to reform their schools in dramatic ways. This book identifies a comprehensive set of practices and conditions that were key factors for improvement, including school leadership and the professional capacity of the faculty and staff.
"This book will advance everyone's thinking about key ideas in school improvementI was excited by the authors' willingness to go beyond descriptive facts to find out what specifically distinguishes two different student bodies with similar demographics. What is so important about this book is that it figures out and describes in various ways the vital role social capital plays both inside and outside school." - Ellen Guiney, director of the Boston Plan for Excellence"
Anthony S. Bryk is president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Penny Bender Sebring is founding codirector of the Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) at the Urban Education Institute at the University of Chicago. Elaine Allensworth is codirector for statistical analysis at CCSR. Stuart Luppescu is chief psychometrician at CCSR. John Q. Easton is executive director of CCSR.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780226078007 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226078000 |
| Title | Organizing Schools for Improvement |
| Author | Anthony S Bryk |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2010-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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