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Aladjem, Daniel K.; Birman, Beatrice F.; Orland, Martin; Harr-Robins, Jenifer; Heredia, Alberto; Parrish, Thomas B.; Ruffini, Stephen J. – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2010
This exploratory study describes approaches to improving schools through retrospective, in-depth qualitative case studies. To select schools to be examined, the authors sought to identify Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) schools demonstrating two distinctive patterns of improved student achievement between 2000 and 2005, rapid-improvement (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Educational Improvement, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Uekawa, Kazuaki; Aladjem, Daniel K.; Zhang, Yu – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2006
We evaluated the role that social capital among teachers plays in affecting teacher pedagogy in the context of comprehensive school reform (CSR). CSR implementation was designed to change school- and classroom-level processes, including organization and governance, curriculum and instruction, professional development (PD), and parental…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Educational Change, School Restructuring, Social Capital
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Kurki, Anja; Boyle, Andrea; Aladjem, Daniel K. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2006
Comprehensive school reform (CSR) is only as effective as its implementation. By using data collected for the National Longitudinal Evaluation of Comprehensive School Reform (NLECSR), this article explores the factors that predict CSR model implementation and the ways that CSR model implementation varies. We found little difference in the fidelity…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Instructional Leadership, Educational Change, School Restructuring