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Extending
Educational Reform: From One School to Many
By Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard, Hugh Mehan (RoutledgeFalmer, 2002)
ISBN: 0415240700
In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of U.S. schools
have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and
other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual
schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform
attempts to extend from one school to many?
Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explores what
happens when school reform goes to scale. Topics covered include:
* Why and how schools are adopting reforms
* The influence of the local context and wider constraints on the implementation
of reform
* Teachers and principals as agents of change in schools
* The evolution of reform design teams
* The implementation, sustainability and expiration of reform, and its
impact on educational change
Each chapter concludes with guidelines for policy and practice.
