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Implementation and performance in New American Schools : three years into scale-up
- Title
- Implementation and performance in New American Schools : three years into scale-up / Mark Berends [and others].
- Publication
- Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2001.
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- Description
- xxiv, 257 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Spurred by the piecemeal approach to school reform that had produced little change in the nation's test scores, New American Schools (NAS) launched its efforts for whole-school reform in 1991. As a private nonprofit organization, NAS's mission is to help schools and districts dramatically raise the achievement levels of large numbers of students by using whole-school designs and design team assistance during the implementation process. NAS is currently in the scale-up phase of its effort in which the designs are being widely diffused in partnering jurisdictions across the nation. This book provides an overview of the progress in implementation and performance in a longitudinal sample of schools three years into the scale-up phase. It describes trends in implementation, school performance, and related factors for the sample of NAS schools. Overall, the authors' analyses strongly underscore the importance of both the district environment and design team assistance in implementation. Without leadership, support, and availability of resources at the district level; without clear communication, provision of materials and staff support; and without efforts on the part of design teams to build a consensus of teacher support, implementation is likely to fail or at least lag far behind. Their findings also suggest comprehensive school reforms face many obstacles during implementation, and because of this, whole-school designs face continuing challenges in dramatically raising the achievement of all students.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Longitudinal studies
- Note
- "MR-1145-EDU."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257).
- Contents
- A Brief History of New American Schools and Rand's Role in Monitoring the Effort -- History of NAS and RAND's Role -- Research Questions Underlying RAND'S Overall Evaluation -- Significant Features of RAND Research -- Purpose of Current Report -- Organization of the Report -- Analyzing Implementation and Performance in Nas Schools: A Conceptual Framework -- Core Elements of Designs -- Factors Affecting Implementation -- External Assistance by Design Teams -- Teacher Background -- School Characteristics -- District Factors -- Other Factors -- Implementation and Performance -- Rand's Sample of New American Schools -- A Sample of New American Schools -- Historical Context of Sample -- Toward the Final Analysis Sample -- Teacher Sample -- Overview of NAS Schools in Analysis Sample -- Status of Implementation -- Research Questions -- Measuring Implementation Within and Across Designs -- Implementation Indices -- Core Implementation Index -- Change in Implementation over Time and by Number of Years of Implementation -- Design Team-Specific Implementation Index -- Changes in Implementation Between 1997 and 1998 -- Differences Across Jurisdictions -- Differences Across Design Teams -- Differences by Years Implementing -- Factors Affecting Implementation -- Operationalizing the Variables Affecting Implementation -- Teacher Background Characteristics -- School Characteristics -- Designs and Design Team Assistance -- District Support -- Variation in Implementation: MultiLevel Analysis -- The Analysis Sample.
- ISBN
- 0585390339
- 9780585390338
- 0833029029
- 9780833029027
- LCCN
- 00062770
- OCLC
- ocm44876926
- 44876926
- SCSB-1201957
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library