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Improvement by Design
David K. Cohen
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Description for Improvement by Design
Hardcover. One of the challenges facing education reformers in the US is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems. This book offers guidance for state and local school systems as they attempt to respond to future reform proposals. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems. Various programs have tried to do that, but only a few have succeeded. Improvement by Design looks at three different programs, seeking to understand why two of them - America's Choice and Success for All - worked, and why the third - Accelerated Schools Project - did not. The authors identify four critical puzzles that the successful programs were able to solve: design, ... Read more
One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems. Various programs have tried to do that, but only a few have succeeded. Improvement by Design looks at three different programs, seeking to understand why two of them - America's Choice and Success for All - worked, and why the third - Accelerated Schools Project - did not. The authors identify four critical puzzles that the successful programs were able to solve: design, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
468g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226089249
SKU
V9780226089249
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About David K. Cohen
David K. Cohen is the John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Education and professor of education policy at the University of Michigan as well as visiting professor of education at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, most recently Teaching and Its Predicaments. Donald J. Peurach is assistant professor of educational studies in the School of Education at the ... Read more
Reviews for Improvement by Design
Improvement by Design takes a fascinating look at an approach to and a period of educational reform that has not been fully examined. By providing a powerful illustration of the weaknesses and turbulence that reformers continue to ignore at their peril and cogently arguing for the development of a much more sophisticated infrastructure to support teaching and learning, the book ... Read more