Ongoing optimism, persistent pessimism and their roots -- Weighing up the evidence -- Explaining our limitations -- Optimism in the detail -- Problems for an optimist: Matthew effects -- What is being effective?: acceleration and other problems -- Summer learning -- Sustaining change -- Scaling up change -- Nested and coherent systems -- A science of performance -- Notes on a cautious optimism: making more effective systems
Summary
The 'science of performance' model of school change this book proposes, to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children, is based on a specific process of research and development in local contexts and on assumptions about teachers, teaching, and research
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index
