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Direct linkHora, Matthew T.; Millar, Susan B. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011
Education partnerships are central to--and often a requirement of--most education reform initiatives promoted by state and local governments, by foundations, and by business funders. Many fail for failure to understand the dynamics of their complex relationships. This book provides insights and guidance to enable prospective and existing education…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Administrative Principles, Planning, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedSchaffhauser, Dian – T.H.E. Journal, 2009
The common approach to scaling, according to Christopher Dede, a professor of learning technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is to jump in and say, "Let's go out and find more money, recruit more participants, hire more people. Let's just keep doing the same thing, bigger and bigger." That, he observes, "tends to…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Educational Innovation, Measures (Individuals), Multidimensional Scaling
Download full textKowal, Julie; Ableidinger, Joe – Public Impact, 2011
In recent years, national policymakers have placed new emphasis on "school turnarounds" as a strategy for rapid, dramatic improvement in chronically failing schools, calling on education leaders to turn around performance in the 5,000 lowest-achieving schools nationwide. This goal may seem daunting, given the dismal success rates of…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Evidence, Business, Nonprofit Organizations
Clubb, Sandy Hatfield – Liberal Education, 2012
The old expression about the carrot and the stick, which refers to the application of reward and punishment to induce action, dates back to the days when pack mules were used for transportation. The mules would move toward carrots that dangled just ahead of them--and move all the faster because they feared drivers with sticks behind them. In 2012,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Athletes, College Athletics, Educational Experience
American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 1992
These three papers address educational improvement through partnerships between institutions of higher education and elementary/secondary schools. In the first paper, "Partnerships for America's Children," Kati Perry Haycock challenges educators in elementary/secondary schools and in higher education to use partnerships to create a continuum for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Black Students, Change Strategies
Calkins, Andrew; Guenther, William; Belfiore, Grace; Lash, Dave – Mass Insight Education (NJ1), 2007
Despite steadily increasing urgency about the nation's lowest-performing schools--those in the bottom five percent--efforts to turn these schools around have largely failed. Marginal change has led to marginal (or no) improvement. These schools, the systems supporting them, and the management of the change process require fundamental rethinking,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Partnerships in Education, Educational Improvement, Accountability
