Smart Districts: Restructuring Urban Systems from the School Up

Titel	Smart Districts: Restructuring Urban Systems from the School Up
Quelle	(2013), (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; School Restructuring; Educational Change; School Districts; Educational Improvement; Educational Administration; Student Needs; Elementary Secondary Education; Administrator Role; School Turnaround; Board of Education Role; Governance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Bildungsreform; School district; Schulbezirk; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung
Abstract	There is no shortage of ideas for improving urban schools: higher standards; aligned assessments and curriculum; better teacher evaluation and support; more and better parent choices; blended learning; and so on. What's missing is any recognition of the importance of district systems in promoting and sustaining improvement as leaders come and go. Until urban school districts are organized in smarter ways, it will remain impossible to scale or sustain any worthy reform. Creating such "smart districts" starts with accepting three truths supported by decades of evidence in the field: (1) First, urban students need seamless supports and a coherent pathway all the way from kindergarten through high school, (2) Second, the structure of urban school districts and in particular the traditional central office model is broken and unfixable in its current form, and (3) Third, total decentralization and autonomy at the school level doesn't make sense either. This report offers turnaround suggestions, a call to action for policymakers, and next steps to create smart urban districts. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01