Getting to Excellent: How to Create Better Schools

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Getting to Excellent: How to Create Better Schools

reviewed by J. Winfield Green - 2005

Title: Getting to Excellent: How to Create Better Schools
Author(s): Judith A. Langer
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 0807744735, Pages: 129, Year: 2004
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What criteria do school administrators and teachers use to evaluate for excellence? Better yet, do educators want to know the ingredients of an excellent school? Judith Langer�s book, Getting to Excellent: How to Create Better Schools, answers one of the most perplexing questions in the era of educational restructuring, �What makes some schools particularly successful and other, comparable ones less so� (p. 107)? As one will soon recognize, this is a must read for all educators, parents, and community members who desire to impact their schools. � What makes this book a cut above the rest is the research-based approach. The appendix describes the action research model used by the author to conduct her study. Her research took place over a five-year period with 25 schools, 44 teachers, 88 classes, and some 2,000 students selected to participate (p. 108). � Langer provides the reader with an assessment tool at the end of Chapters 2 through 6 to determine if a school is more or less effective. Chapter 2 addresses... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 107 Number 2, 2005, p. 300-303
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11384, Date Accessed: 1/16/2021 7:49:42 AM

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