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Author Peurach, Donald J., 1962-

Title Seeing complexity in public education : problems, possibilities, and success for all / Donald J. Peurach
Published New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages)
Contents ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Problems""; ""Solutions""; ""The Success for All Foundation""; ""The Story""; ""Analytic Framework""; ""Complexity""; ""1. Designing""; ""Beginnings""; ""The Organizational Blueprint""; ""Challenges, Redefined""; ""Gathering Enthusiasm""; ""Gathering Criticism""; ""Questions""; ""2. Supporting""; ""The Program Adoption Process""; ""The Replication Process""; ""Compounding Potential, Compounding Risk""; ""Program as Classroom""; ""3. Scaling Up""; ""Emergence and Co-Evolution""; ""Exploding Growth""; ""Exploding Risk""; ""A Perfect Storm""
""Recapturing the Program""""4. Continuously Improving""; ""The Development Agenda""; ""The Development Organization""; ""The Development Process""; ""Revolution via Evolution""; ""New Problems Within, New Problems Beyond""; ""Living on the Edge""; ""5. Sustaining""; ""Evolving to Evolve""; ""Seeing and Interpreting""; ""Strategizing and Adapting""; ""The More Things Change . . .""; ""Time Capsule: Advice and Predictions""; ""6. Seeing""; ""Reprise""; ""Reform""; ""Renewal""; ""Appendix: My Learning""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""
""J""""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""o""; ""p""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""v""; ""w""
Summary In a period of unprecedented pressure to reform education in the United States, two questions stand out: What is involved in the work of transforming underperforming schools into higher performing schools? And what makes this work so difficult? 'Seeing Complexity in Public Education' examines these questions in light of the history of the Success for All Foundation, an organization that has collaborated with thousands of elementary schools across the US to enact a common design for comprehensive school reform
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index
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Subject Public schools -- United States
School improvement programs -- United States
EDUCATION -- Finance.
Public schools
School improvement programs
United States
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199837922
0199837929