Altering the structure and culture of American public schools

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 606-615

  Wilms, Wellford W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 25844530461     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170308400814     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. For a description of how lesson study might be adapted to U.S. schools, see Clea Fernandez and Sonal Chokshi, "A Practical Guide to Translating Lesson Study for a U.S. Setting," Phi Delta Kappan, October 2002, pp. 128-34.
2. Michael L. Dertouzos, Richard K. Lester, and Robert M. Solow, Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989).
3. James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos, The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production (New York: HarperPerennial, 1990), pp. 138-68.
4. Ellwood P. Cubberley, Public School Administration (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), p. 338.
5. Raymond E. Callahan, Education and the Cult of Efficiency (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).
6. Ibid., p. 146.
7. Kenneth G. Wilson and Bennett Davis, Redesigning Education (New York: Henry Holt, 1994).
8. Between 1989 and 1995 I led a research team that studied New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI), Douglas Aircraft, USS-POSCO, and Hewlett-Packard to try to discover why some companies survived and prospered and others failed. The results can be found in my book Restoring Prosperity: How Workers and Managers Are Forging a New Culture of Cooperation (New York: Times Books/Random House, 1996).
9. Ibid.
10. Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, The Japanese Model of Schooling: Comparisons with the United States (New York: Routledge, 2001).
11. For a useful description of lesson study and how it is used as a change strategy in Japan, see Catherine Lewis and Ineko Tsuchida, "Planned Educational Change in Japan: The Shift to Student-Centered Elementary Science," Journal of Educational Policy, vol. 12, 1997, pp. 313-31.
12. See also James Stigler and James Hiebert, The Teaching Gap (New York: Free Press, 1999);
13. and, for an authoritative and detailed description of lesson study in Japan, Makoto Yoshida, "Lesson Study: An Ethnographic Investigation of School-Based Teacher Development in Japan" (Doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago, 1999).
14. Catherine Lewis and Ineko Tsuchida, "The Basics in Japan: The Three C's," Educational Leadership, March 1998, pp. 32-37.
15. United Teachers Los Angeles local is an affiliate of both the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
16. Wellford W. Wilms and Deone M. Zell, "Evaluation of a Union-Led Lesson Study Project in the Language Arts: Final Report," Los Angeles, March 2002.