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Transforming Public Education
Cases in Education Entrepreneurship
Edited by Stacey M. Childress
Transforming Public Education features nineteen cases that profile entrepreneurs who are pursuing opportunities to create pattern-breaking social change in our public schools.
Teaching Talent
A Visionary Framework for Human Capital in Education
Edited by Rachel E. Curtis and Judy Wurtzel, foreword by Michael F. Bennet, Senator from Colorado
Teaching Talent presents a framework for human capital development that draws on a two-year initiative by the Aspen Institute Education and Society Program to research sectors that have effective, well-developed human capital systems and point the way toward human capital innovations in public education.
What Next?
Educational Innovation and Philadelphia’s School of the Future
Edited by Mary Cullinane and Frederick M. Hess
What Next? offers a detailed study of the School of the Future's first three years (2006–2009) revealing what the School of the Future can teach us about high school redesign, public-private partnerships, and the use of technology in school reform.
Strategic Priorities for School Improvement
No. 6 in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight Series
Edited by Caroline T. Chauncey, foreword by Robert B. Schwartz
Strategic Priorities for School Improvement presents a collection of seminal articles on standards and assessment; using data to improve learning; recruiting and retaining great teachers and leaders; and turning around failing schools.
Against the Odds
Insights from One District's Small School Reform
Larry Cuban, Gary Lichtenstein, Arthur Evenchik, Martin Tombari, and Kristen Pozzoboni
Against the Odds offers an in-depth look at the Mapleton, Colorado, school district’s transformation of two traditional high schools into seven small schools, each enrolling fewer than four hundred students.
Humanizing Education
Critical Alternatives to Reform
Edited by Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Kristy S. Cooper, Sherry L. Deckman, Christina L. Dobbs, Chantal Francois, Thomas Nikundiwe, Carla Shalaby
Humanizing Education: Critical Alternatives to Reform is a collection of essays from the Harvard Educational Review that offer historic examples of hopeful and humanizing educational spaces, practices, and movements that embody a spirit of hope and change.
Improving Struggling Schools
A Developmental Approach to Intervention
D. Brent Stephens, foreword by Michael Fullan
Improving Struggling Schools draws on a blend of case studies and the emerging body of research on failing schools to identify patterns in the challenges they face.
Key Elements of Observing Practice
A Data Wise DVD and Facilitator’s Guide
Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth A. City, and Marcia K. Russell
Based on Data Wise and Data Wise in Action, Key Elements of Observing Practice offers insight into one of the most challenging steps in capturing data about school performance: observing and analyzing instructional practice.
Smart Money
Using Educational Resources to Accomplish Ambitious Learning Goals
Edited by Jacob E. Adams, Jr.
Smart Money brings together research on education finance policy and on the uses of school and district resources, thus providing a uniquely comprehensive analysis of school finance systems.
Strategy in Action
How School Systems Can Support Powerful Learning and Teaching
Rachel E. Curtis and Elizabeth A. City, foreword by Beverly L. Hall
How can we systemically improve the quality of classroom instruction and the learning and achievement of students? In an era when isolated examples of excellence are not good enough, we need systems that support improvement and excellence for all. This book describes how systems can effectively engage in this complex, challenging, and crucial work.