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Learning To Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
Anthony S. Bryk
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Description for Learning To Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
Paperback. In "Learning to Improve," the authors argue for a new approach to education reform that leverages networked improvement communities to address high school dropout rates and other core concerns." Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than “implementing fast and learning slow,” they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to “learn fast to implement well.”
Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, the authors show how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully ... Read more
As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than “implementing fast and learning slow,” they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to “learn fast to implement well.”
Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, the authors show how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
369g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781612507910
SKU
V9781612507910
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About Anthony S. Bryk
Anthony S. Bryk is the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Louis M. Gomez holds theMacArthur Chair in Digital Media and Learning in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA and is a senior partner at Carnegie. Alicia Grunow is a senior partner and codirector ... Read more
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