Research Catalog

Title

The role of districts in fostering instructional improvement : lessons from three urban districts partnered with the Institute for Learning / Julie A. Marsh [and others].

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Marsh, Julie A.
• Institute for Learning.

Description

xxix, 190 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Analyzes three urban districts' efforts to improve the instructional quality and performance of their schools and assesses the contribution to those efforts made by an intermediary organization, the Institute for Learning. The authors identify constraints and enablers of district success, assess the nature and effect of district-intermediary partnerships, and make recommendations for districts undertaking similar instructional reforms.

Subject

• School improvement programs > United States > Case studies
• Instructional systems > United States > Case studies
• School districts > United States > Case studies
• Educational change > United States > Case studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies
• EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Workplace Culture
• Educational change
• Instructional systems
• School districts
• School improvement programs
• Schulaufsicht
• Schulentwicklungsplanung
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190).

Contents

Introduction -- Research background, framework, and methods -- Settign the stage: overview of study districts and the IFL -- District strategies to improve instruction: implementation and outcomes -- Overarching findings about district instructional improvement: common constraints and enablers -- Impact of the Institute For Learning -- Conclusions and lessons learned.

ISBN

• 0833038532
• 9780833038531

LCCN

2005025509

OCLC

• ocm61458267
• 61458267
• SCSB-8904207

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library