High-Need Schools Changing the Dialogue /

This book covers issues that pertain to high-need schools but the authors challenge the distinctions made in the research and reason that the issues are relevant to all schools. From the rise of accountability in the 1960s to now, high-need schools have been dealing with curriculum, program initiati...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Thornburg, Devin (Editor), Mungai, Anne M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Liesbeth Breek
  • Foreword by Dick van der Wateren
  • Acknowledgements
  • The Emperor’s New Clothes Are Accounting Straitjackets: A Very Brief History of Federal School Reform and the Rise of Accountability, 1965–2015
  • Innovation in School Reform: Technology and the Impact on Curriculum and Teaching
  • In-School Reform in High-Need Schools: Teaching the Next Generation
  • Issues of Leadership in Successful School Reform: Central Importance of Leadership in Successful School Reform
  • Multicultural Issues
  • Special Education Issues
  • Teachers in High-Need School Reform
  • About the Contributors. .