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Wyatt, Lisa G.; Scragg, Benjamin S.; Stein, Jennifer Y. G.; Mishra, Punya – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2021
This case study, framed within a school-university partnership, highlights the tensions inherent to employing design-based approaches for educational change. The case illustrates core tensions between an abductive, open-ended, design-based approach to change versus more traditional (deductive/inductive) approaches to managing change in schools.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Restructuring, Design, College School Cooperation
Chakrabarti, Rajashri – Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2008
This paper examines the impact of vouchers in general and voucher design in particular on public school performance. It argues that all voucher programs are not created equal. There are often fundamental differences in voucher designs that affect public school incentives differently and induce different responses from them. It analyzes two voucher…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Program Effectiveness, Educational Vouchers, School Effectiveness
Thiessen, Dennis; Anderson, Stephen E. – 1999
This book is part of a series of case studies that demonstrate better ways to educate Ohio's students. The case study is part of the Transforming Learning Communities (TLC) Project, designed to support significant school-reform efforts among Ohio's elementary, middle, and high schools. The text describes the 12 Ohio schools that were selected for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Educational Change
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Johnson, Patsy E.; Holder, Cheryl; Carrick, Charles; Sanford, Nesbitt – ERS Spectrum, 1998
The superintendent, a central-office supervisor, the principal, and an external consultant began discussions to address the specific needs of an elementary school in Scottsboro, Alabama. The process involved completing a pre-assessment and feasibility study, developing and introducing a staff-development change model, creating an action plan,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Governance, Interviews, Models
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Jetton, Tamara L.; Cancienne, Mary Beth; Greever, Brenda – Theory Into Practice, 2008
This article is a descriptive account of a professional learning community established among university professors, university teacher candidates, a school district instructional supervisor, the high school principal, a high school literacy coordinator, and teachers of a Mid-Atlantic high school in the United States. This learning community…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, High Schools, Principals, Literacy
Talley, Susan; Martinez, D. Hollinger – 1998
The 27 school reform models presented in this publication have been supported, at some time in their development and dissemination, by the National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department Education. As part of its mission, the Institute supports the development of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1990
Schools and school districts throughout the nation are developing and implementing educational programs designed to improve teaching, learning, and school management. This report provides a description of how schools and school districts in various parts of the country are developing and implementing improvement programs, based on their own…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Conferences, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation