Beyond standardization: Powerful new principles for improvement

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-143

  Hargreaves, Andy ^a   Shirley, Dennis ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b and Curriculum and Instruction ^*

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EID: 55349118172     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170809000212     Document Type: Review

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1. Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink, Sustainable Leadership (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005).
2. Center on Education Policy, Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era (Washington, D.C.: Center on Education Policy, 2007).
3. Jihyun Lee, Wendy S. Grigg, and Gloria S. Dion, The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2007, NCES 2007-494 (Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 2007).
4. Jean Johnson, Ana Maria Arumi, and Amber Ott, Issue Number 3: Is Support for Standards and Testing Fading? Reality Check 2006 (New York: Public Agenda, 2006).
5. UNICEF, Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries, Innocenti Report Card 7 (Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2007).
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7. Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen, The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
8. W. Norton Grubb, "Dynamic Inequality and Intervention: Lessons from a Small Country," Phi Delta Kappan, October 2007, pp. 105-14.
9. Pasi Sahlberg, "Education Reform for Raising Economic Competitiveness," Journal of Educational Change, December 2006, pp. 259-87;
10. Idem, "Education Policies for Raising Student Learning: The Finnish Approach," Journal of Education Policy, March 2007, pp. 147-71; and Aho, Pitkanen, and Sahlberg, op. cit.
11. Andy Hargreaves, Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Anxiety (New York: Teachers College Press, 2003);
12. and Andy Hargreaves and Ivor Goodson, eds., "Change over Time," special issue of Educational Administration Quarterly, February 2006.
13. Michael Fullan, Turnaround Leadership (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007);
14. and Land Sharratt and Michael Fullan, "Accomplishing Districtwide Reform," Journal of School Leadership, 2006, pp. 583-95.
15. Betty Achinstein and Rodney T. Ogawa, "(In)Fidelity: What the Resistance of New Teachers Reveals About Professional Principles and Prescriptive Educational Policies," Harvard Educational Review, Spring 2006, pp. 30-63.
16. Hargreaves and Fink, op. cit.
17. Andy Hargreaves et al., The Long and Short of School Improvement: Final Evaluation of the Raising Achievement Transforming Learning Programme of the Specialist School and Academies Trust (London: Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, 2007).
18. Clarence N. Stone et al., Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001).
19. Dennis Shirley, Community Organizing for Urban School Reform (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997).
20. Theda Skocpol, Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004).
21. Michael D. Usdan and Larry Cuban, Powerful Reforms with Shallow Roots: Improving America's Urban Schools (New York: Teachers College Press, 2003).
22. Academy for Educational Development, Lead Teacher Report: Second Year Report Submitted to the Community Collaborative to Improve Bronx Schools (Washington, D.C.: Academy for Educational Development, 2006).
23. Seema Shah and Kavitha Mediratta, "Negotiating Reform: Young People's Leadership in the Educational Arena," New Directions in Youth Development, April 2008, pp. 43-59.
24. Mark R. Warren, "Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform," Harvard Educational Review, Summer 2005, pp. 133-73.
25. Dennis Shirley, Community Organizing;
26. idem, Valley Interfaith and School Reform: Organizing for Power in South Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002);
27. and Dennis Shirley and Michael Evans, "Community Organizing and No Child Left Behind," in Marion Orr, ed., Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007), pp. 109-33.
28. Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers, and Martin Lipton, Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice (New York: Teachers College Press, 2006).