The Children Left Behind

America's Struggle to Improve Its Lowest Performing Schools

Daniel L. Duke (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2016
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2359-2 (ISBN)

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Between 2002 and 2016, the federal government, state governments, and school districts undertook unprecedented measures to improve the lowest-performing schools. This book draws on dozens of actual examples to illustrate the wide range of interventions adopted over this time period. Among the initiatives examined in depth are efforts by states to provide technical assistance to schools and districts, offer students educational choices, engage communities in school improvement, take over low-performing schools and districts, create special state-run school districts, and close failing schools. Also discussed are district-initiated measures, including programs to standardize instruction, innovative approaches to raising student achievement, and restructuring of district operations. The book concludes with an assessment of 15 years of turnaround initiatives and recommendations based on lessons learned over this time period.

Daniel L. Duke, internationally known specialist on school improvement, has written extensively on how to turn around low-performing schools. Besides conducting numerous studies of the turnaround process, Duke has designed training programs for turnaround specialists, conducted trainings, and consulted with states and school systems on ways to improve struggling schools.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section I: The Making of a Mission

Chapter 1: The Evolving Role of the Federal Government in Helping the Lowest-performing Schools

Chapter 2: “If You Can Turn Around Buffalo, You Can Turn Around Anything”

Section II: The States’ Growing Impact on the Lowest-performing Schools

Chapter 3: State Takeovers and the Complexities of Policy Making for the Lowest-performing School Districts and Schools

Chapter 4: An Alternative Form of State Takeover: The Special State District for Low-performing Schools

Chapter 5: Technical Assistance and Training

Chapter 6: Choice, Community Action, and Closure

Section III: Local Responses to State and Federal Pressure to Help the Children Left Behind

Chapter 7: One Best Way to Leave No Child Behind

Chapter 8: Local Innovation and Options: A Better Prescription?

Chapter 9: Developing District Capacity to Support School Turnarounds

Section IV: Reflections on America’s Struggle to Improve Its Lowest-performing Schools

Chapter 10: Reviewing an Equivocal Verdict

Chapter 11: Thinking about the Path Ahead

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2016
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 239 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4758-2359-2 / 1475823592
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-2359-2 / 9781475823592
Zustand	Neuware