Organizing Schools for Improvement
Lessons from Chicago
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Tale of Two Schools
Introduction: A Rare Opportunity to Learn about School Improvement
1 Developing Appropriate Outcome Indicators
2 A Framework of Essential Supports
3 Testing the Framework of the Essential Supports
4 Probing Deeper: Organizational Mechanisms
5 Trust, Size, and Stability: Key Enablers
6 The Influences of Community Context
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix A: Socioeconomic Status Factor
Appendix B: A Value-Added Indicator: A School’s Academic
Productivity Profile
Appendix C: Overview of the Fourteen Indicators for the Five Essential Supports
Appendix D: Probability Experiment to Evaluate Results Presented in
Figure 3.3
Appendix E: Interview Questions from the Project on Human Development
in Chicago Neighborhoods
Appendix F: Coefficients from Analyses of Leadership in Chapter 4
Appendix G: Value-Added Replication Results for 1997 through
2005
Appendix H: Efforts of the Consortium on Chicago School Research to
Build More Productive Ties between Research, Practice, and Policy
to Improve Practice
Notes
References
IndexEducation: Curriculum and Methodology | Education--General Studies | Pre-School, Elementary and Secondary Education
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