Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children A Science of Performance Model for Research

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Synopsis

How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust ‘science of performance’ model of school change based on a specified process of research and development in local contexts, this book:


lays out the traditions of optimism and pessimism about effective schooling for at-risk students
reviews the international and national evidence for the effectiveness of schools and school systems in reducing disparities in achievement
describes the challenges educational research must address to solve the problem of school effectiveness, proposes strict criteria against which effectiveness should be judged, and examines in detail examples where change has been demonstrated
proposes how researchers, professionals, and policy-makers can develop more effective systems.


Bringing together structural and psychological accounts of the nature of schools, and establishing theoretically defensible criteria for judging effectiveness, this book is a critically important contribution to advancing the science of making schools more effective.

Book details

Author:
Stuart McNaughton
ISBN:
9781136859168
Related ISBNs:
9780203835821, 9780415886598, 9780415886598, 9780415886604, 9780415886604
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-04-01
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2011
Copyright by:
Routledge 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Education, Nonfiction, Politics and Government