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21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook offers 100 chapters written by leading experts in the field that highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates facing educators today. This comprehensive and authoritative two-volume work provides undergraduate education majors with insight into the rich array of issues inherent in education—issues informing debates that involve all Americans.Key Features:· Provides undergraduate majors with an authoritative reference source ideal for their classroom research needs, preparation for GREs, and research into directions to take in pursuing a graduate degree or career· Offers more detailed information than encyclopedia entries, but not as much jargon, detail, or density as journal articles or research handbook chapters· Explores educational policy and reform, teacher education and certification, educational administration, curriculum, and instruction· Offers a reader-friendly common format: Theory, Methods, Applications, Comparison, Future Directions, Summary, References and Further Readings 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook is designed to prepare teachers, professors, and administrators for their future careers, informing the debates and preparing them to address the questions and meet the challenges of education today.
Comprehensive School Reform
Comprehensive School Reform
Comprehensive school reform (CSR) refers to approaches to improving outcomes in entire schools. CSR sees the school as the primary unit of change in education. It seeks to implant effective practices in all of the central areas of school functioning most likely to affect student achievement: curriculum, instruction, assessment, grouping, accommodations for struggling students, parent and community involvement, school organization, and professional development (see Borman, Hewes, Overman, & Brown, 2003; Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, 2006a, b; Educational Research Service, 1998; Stringfield, Ross, & Smith, 1996). In 1998, the U.S. Department of Education defined CSR as innovative programs that include all of the following elements:
- Coordination of resources: The program identifies how all resources (federal/state/local/private) available to the school will be ...
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