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Innovation up Close - How School Improvement Works (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Innovation up Close - How School Improvement Works (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
Series: Environment, Development and Public Policy: Public Policy and Social Services
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School improvement, like motherhood, has many advocates. Everyone
is for it, without having to campaign actively on its behalf. And
just as the 100% of people who have had mothers think they know how
mothering could be done better, so the (nearly) 100% of people who
have been pupils in schools, or have even taught in or managed
them, think they know how schools can be im proved. More precisely,
they are sure that schools ought to be improved. The trouble is
that they propose a staggering, conflicting range of methods of
improving the schools, from;'back to the woodshed" to teacher merit
pay, a stiffer curriculum, a stronger tax base, reorganization, a
more humane climate, "teacher-proof" innovations, community
involvement-the list is nearly end less. Furthermore, the issues
are not merely technical, but normative and po litical. The term
improvement is itself problematic. One person's version of
improvement is another's version of wastefulness or even of
worsening the schools. Furthermore, the versions that win out in
any particular school are not Improvement sometimes turns out to be
merely a necessarily technically "best. " code word for the
directives that administrators have successfully put into place, or
for the agreements that teachers have lobbied into being. How much
do we really know about school improvement? The available research
literature is quite substantial, but not as helpful as it might
be."
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