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Peer reviewedStringfield, Sam – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2000
Of the four guides to schoolwide reform models (by Herman and others, Northwest Regional Education Laboratory, Robert Slavin, and Margaret Wang and associates), Herman's volume provides the most detailed, scholarly review. Practical information abounds, but more well-controlled and designed longitudinal studies are essential. (Contains 32…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedGray, John – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2001
"The International Handbook of School Effectiveness Research" (2000) by C. Teddlie and D. Reynolds is a searching, authoritative assessment of the SER field. However, the field should acknowledge its failures and lose its "schools make a difference" mantra. The "next wave" must grapple directly with implementing and…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Educational Change, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMumper, Michael – Urban Education, 1988
Reviews "The Politics of School Reform 1870-1940" by Paul Peterson, and "Power and the Promise of School Reform: Grassroots Movements During the Progressive Era" by William J. Reese. Notes that these two studies serve to bring politics, and political variables, back into the debate over educational policymaking, but are…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Policy
