Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better

by Anthony S. Bryk, Alicia Grunow, Paul G. LeMahieu, et al.

Book Overview

As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve , the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than "implementing fast and learning slow," they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to "learn fast to implement well." Using...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612507913
• ISBN13: 9781612507910
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Harvard Education PR
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"