Bringing Systemic Reform to Life: School Distirct Reform and Comer Schools (Malloy, Malloy, Noblit)

Quantity in Basket:none Code: 9781572736788 Price:$32.50 Title: Bringing Systemic Reform to Life Sub-title: School Distirct Reform and Comer Schools Author(s): William Malloy, Carol Malloy and George Noblit Publish Date: January 2008 Pages: 120 Format: Cloth

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This volume is an examination of how school districts and national school reform organizations can work together to promote effective school reform distric wide. It is based on 10 years of reserch and evaluation studies with James Comer School Development Program (SDP). Using a set of urban school distsrict cases, it analyzes how districts and the SDP learned to collaborate and what mechaniams seem to be especially promising in bringing systemic reform to life. the book also analyzes what school districts should look for in a national reform oranization and how districts have learned to support reform efforts by taking on some of the processes of the national reform organization as their own.