The district role in instructional improvement

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 78-84

  Corcoran, T O M ^a   Fuhrman, Susan H ^b   Belcher, Catherine L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Graduate School of Education

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EID: 0040077972     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170108300116     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. See, for example, Susan J. Bodilly, Lessons from New American Schools' Scale-Up Phase: Prospects for Bringing Designs to Multiple Schools (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, 1998);
2. Richard F. Elmore and Deanna Burney, Investing in Teacher Learning: Staff Development and Instructional Improvement in Community School District 2, New York City (New York: National Commission on Teaching and America's Future and the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 1997);
3. Joseph Murray and Phillip Hallinger, "Characteristics of Instructionally Effective Districts," Journal of Educational Research, vol. 8, 1988, pp. 175-81;
4. and James P. Spillane, "Districts Matter: Local Educational Authorities and State Instructional Policy," Educational Policy, vol. 10, 1996, pp. 63-87.
5. John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe, "No School Is an Island: Politics, Markets, and Education," in William L Boyd and Charles T. Kerchner, eds., The Politics of Excellence and Choice in Education (Philadelphia: Palmer, 1988), pp. 131-41;
6. and Paul Hill, Lawrence Pierce, and James Guthrie, Reinventing Public Education: How Contracting Can Transform America's Schools (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), chap. 3.