Authentic Achievement: Restructuring Schools for Intellectual Quality (Jossey-Bass Education) - Hardcover

Newmann, Fred M.

 
9780787903206: Authentic Achievement: Restructuring Schools for Intellectual Quality (Jossey-Bass Education)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0787903205 ISBN 13: 9780787903206
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Synopsis

This book presents the findings of a five-year, federally funded study that examined the connection between school restructuring and student achievement. Using a wealth of examples, the authors provide a vivid picture of the conditions under which innovations in a school's organization contribute to achievement. They recommend standards for reaching student intellectual quality and offer evidence of how these standards work.

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About the Author

FRED M. NEWMANN is professor of curriculum and instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is former director of the National Center on Effective Secondary Schools and of the Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools.

From the Back Cover

"Fred Newmann, unlike most researchers, pays attention to the critical linkage between reorganizing schools and what happens in classrooms. In these research-based portraits of schools and classrooms, reform-minded policymakers and practitioners will find compelling evidence to never forget the connection between teaching, learning, and restructuring."
―Larry Cuban, professor of education, Stanford University

Why are some schools more successful than others? This new book presents the findings of a five-year, federally funded study that examined the connection between school restructuring and student achievement. Using a wealth of examples, the authors provide a vivid picture of the conditions under which innovations in a school's organization contribute to student achievement―extending learning beyond rote memorization of isolated facts to thinking, disciplined understanding, and complex communication. Standards for achieving student intellectual quality are recommAnded, and evidence is provided that teaching consistent with these standards greatly contributes to student achievement. The results and recommAndations offer teachers, administrators, and policymakers an important mid-course correction in the process of school restructuring.

From the Inside Flap

"Fred Newmann, unlike most researchers, pays attention to the critical linkage between reorganizing schools and what happens in classrooms. In these research-based portraits of schools and classrooms, reform-minded policymakers and practitioners will find compelling evidence to never forget the connection between teaching, learning, and restructuring."
—Larry Cuban, professor of education, Stanford University

Why are some schools more successful than others? This new book presents the findings of a five-year, federally funded study that examined the connection between school restructuring and student achievement. Using a wealth of examples, the authors provide a vivid picture of the conditions under which innovations in a school's organization contribute to student achievement—extending learning beyond rote memorization of isolated facts to thinking, disciplined understanding, and complex communication. Standards for achieving student intellectual quality are recommAnded, and evidence is provided that teaching consistent with these standards greatly contributes to student achievement. The results and recommAndations offer teachers, administrators, and policymakers an important mid-course correction in the process of school restructuring.

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Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0787903205
ISBN 13 
9780787903206
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
384