Research Catalog

Title

Accelerated schools in action : lessons from the field / [edited by] Christine Finnan ... [et al.].

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c1995.

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Details

Additional Authors

Finnan, Christine R.

Description

xxi, 320 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Pretend your school is one of the accelerated schools described in this new restructuring resource. If so, you changed the basic tenets of your school from remedial education and slow learning for at-risk students to accelerated education and high performance learning for all students. How on earth did you accomplish this lofty goal? The first thing you did was to read this book. You found the information you needed to get started right here. This comprehensive, insightful book is full of lessons - not just theory - from research, evaluation, and practice.

Subjects

• School management and organization > United States
• Remedial education
• Educational acceleration > United States > Evaluation
• School principals > United States
• Center for Educational Research at Stanford. Accelerated Schools Project Evaluation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-313) and index.

Contents

Preface / Edward P. St. John -- Pt. I. Inquiry Into Accelerated Schools -- Introduction / Edward P. St. John. 1. Accelerated Schools: The Background / Henry M. Levin. 2. Growth and Learning: Big Wheels and Little Wheels Interacting / Ilse Brunner and Wendy Hopfenberg. 3. Accelerated Schools as Learning Organizations: The Revitalization of Pioneer Schools / Ilse Brunner and Brenda LeTendre -- Reflection: Learning to Facilitate, Reflect, and Inquire / Edward P. St. John -- Pt. II. Building Capacity -- Introduction / Christine Finnan. 4. Building Shared Meaning and Commitment During the Courtship Phase / James W. Kushman and Thomas G. Chenoweth. 5. Making Change Our Friend / Christine Finnan. 6. Building Communities of Inquiry: Linking Teacher Research and School Restructuring / Edward P. St. John, James Meza, Jr., Leetta Allen-Haynes and Betty M. Davidson -- Reflection: Creating an Environment to Sustain School Change / Christine Finnan.

ISBN

• 0803962428 (alk. paper)
• 9780803962422 (alk. paper)
• 0803962436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780803962439 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95022651

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library