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Emily Markovich Morris; Laura Nóra; Richaa Hoysala, Contributor; Max Lieblich, Contributor; Sophie Partington, Contributor; Rebecca Winthrop, Contributor – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2024
This report is the result of the participation of hundreds of students, families, school educators, and researchers who dedicated their time and energy to investigating the critical role that families and communities play in ensuring students and schools can flourish. It is a culmination of over two years of collaborative research and hundreds of…
Descriptors: Students, Teachers, Educational Researchers, Academic Achievement
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2010
The aim of this guide is to stimulate professional reflection, dialogue and debate about learning. Education professionals in Scotland are already aware of the key issues relating to learning through the series "Curriculum for Excellence: Building the Curriculum," the recent publication "Learning Together: Opening Up Learning"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Schools, Educational Improvement
Pine, Nancy – Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
In her groundbreaking book, Educating Young Giants, Nancy Pine reveals how reliance on antiquated teaching methods and ineffectual reform efforts has left youth in the United States and China ill-equipped for the demands of modern technology and the global economy. Transporting us into Chinese elementary and high school classrooms, Pine, a U.S.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
MacBeath, John, Ed.; Mortimore, Peter, Ed. – 2001
School effectiveness is an issue that has preoccupied researchers and policymakers for 3 decades. To study how ineffective schools become effective and what constitutes an effective school, the Improving School Effectiveness Project was carried out in Scotland from 1995 to 1997. This project forms the basis of discussion in this book, which has 11…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2006
This document is one of a series of guides to self-evaluation that builds on the advice given in the publication "How good is our school?" (2002 edition). This guide should be used to evaluate the quality of parental partnerships and is designed for use by teachers, managers, education support services, parents and the bodies that…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Parent Participation, Self Evaluation (Groups), Academic Support Services
Dekkers, John; And Others – 1982
This guide is designed primarily for administrators/teachers to provide: an introduction to the nature and purpose of school evaluation; an approach involving evaluation of issues determined by school staff; a set of procedures to carry out the evaluation; and guidance information and instruments for conducting an evaluation. Although the guide is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2004
This guide has been prepared to support planning for improvement in enterprise in education. It has been designed for use by classroom teachers, school managers and staff from a wide range of agencies involved in enterprise in education, reflecting the increasing emphasis on multi-agency approaches and integrated strategies to meet pupils' needs.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Self Evaluation (Groups), Educational Quality