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Challenges of Conflicting School Reforms: Effects of New American Schools in a High-Poverty Districtreviewed by William Ruff - 2003 Title: Challenges of Conflicting School Reforms: Effects of New American Schools in a High-Poverty District Author(s): Mark Berends, Joan Chun, Gina Schuyler, Sue Stockly and R.J. Briggs Publisher: Rand, Santa Monica, CA ISBN: 0833031163, Pages: , Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com Challenges of Conflicting School Reforms: Effects of New
American Schools in a High Poverty District by Berends, Chun,
Schuyler, Stockly and Briggs is a must read for state-level policy
implementation officials and school district executives wrestling
with the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
(NCLB, Public Law 107-110) policy. For the next decade
educators will strive for adequate yearly progress in student
achievement (Linn, Baker & Betebenner, 2002). This book
directly speaks to such NCLB policy implications and to the nature
of school reform in general. It describes a two-year, mixed
method study examining, first, the differences between classrooms
of schools adopting New American Schools (NAS) designs and the
classrooms of non-NAS campuses and, second, the relationships
between classroom conditions and student achievement within a
high-poverty, urban Texas school district. It conveys the
story of a school district that obscured its own long-term goals of
comprehensive school reform by focusing on immediate test score
gains.
The difficulties [with respect to a schism in design
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- William Ruff
Arizona State University West E-mail Author WILLIAM RUFF is an assistant professor of Educational Administration and Supervision at Arizona State University West. He recently earned his doctorate from The University of Texas at San Antonio and has several years experience teaching in an inner city San Antonio public school. His research interests focus on school reform and issues of leadership in learning communities.
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