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Educational Reform as System Building: Infrastructure, Coupling, and Instructional Improvement

Sun, April 15, 8:15 to 10:15am, New York Hilton Midtown, Floor: Second Floor, Sutton North

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

For most of the 20th century, the dream of improving public schools centered on equal access—for more students, for different sorts of students, and to a variety of more responsive educational programs. In the mid-1990s, standards-based reform brought a new dream for U.S. schools—equal outcomes among student population groups as measured by accountability mandates.

The collision between the two dreams creates a dilemma: How do public and nonpublic school systems manage environmental pressures to rebuild themselves as coherent, instructionally-effective organizations while also managing their inherited differentiated organization?

This symposium addresses the critical issues of system design, redesign, and turnaround to examine how different school systems interact with and affect instruction, maintain instructional quality, and enable instructional improvement.

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