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Title: School Improvement: A Systemic View of What's Missing and What to Do About It.
Description: Concerns are increasing about the degree to which achievement test score averages are plateauing and the failure of current reforms to make a significant dent in the achievement gap. Yet the call for leaving no child behind continues to stress the same formula for school improvement-higher standards and greater accountability, improved curricula and instruction, increased discipline, reduced school violence, and on and on. None of it means much if such calls do not result in substantive systemic changes in the many schools where too many students do not have an equitable opportunity to succeed...Access at: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/publications/school improvement a systemic view of whats missing.pdf 891 kb; 22pp
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