| Description |
1 online resource (207 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Author; Dedication and Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Focus the Mission; The Mission Statement; The Values of a Limited Mission Statement; Develop Guiding Questions; 2 Increase Academic Rigor; Increase Time on Task; Increase Student Engagement; Determine Minimum Time on Core Areas; Analyze the Current Time Spent on Core; Realign the Purpose of Noncore Areas; Change School Schedule to Give Priority to Core Areas; Increase Length of the Day; Increase Length of the Year; Require Regular, Consistent, Quality Homework |
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Establish Nonschool Tutorial ProgramsFocus the Curriculum; Use a Standards-Based Approach; Align Vertical Curriculum; Increase Graduation Requirements; Introduce Weighted Grades; Introduce Harder Subjects Earlier; Prevent Regression to Easier Subjects; Eliminate Grade Inflation; Teach What Is Tested and Test What is Taught; Modify Practices That Lower Student Achievement; Whole Language; Developmentalism; Lessening of Importance of Basic Mathematical Computation; Multiple Intelligences; Middle School Philosophy; 3 Establish Supportive Accountability; Face the Fear of Accountability |
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Become Results-OrientedUse High-Stakes Assessments; Initiate Accountability Via Evaluation; Superintendent; Principals; Other Administrators; Teachers; Support Personnel; Develop Financial Incentives; 4 Introduce Cooperative Competition; Start Public Schools of Choice; Magnetize or Focus Traditional Schools; Switch to Whole-School Reform Models; Restructure Traditional Schools; 5 Define the Power Structure; Empower School Leaders; Determine the Final Authority for All Decision Points; Change the Funding Mechanism; 6 Implement Traditional Achievement Factors; Employ and Retain Quality Teachers |
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Create and Maintain Student Discipline, Mutual Respect, and School OrderUpgrade Skills Through Ongoing and Frequent Staff Development; Involve Parents; Lower the Class Size; Begin a Preschool Program; Switch Elementary and Secondary School Starting Times; Create Smaller Schools; 7 Undertake an Achievement Audit; The Center for Achievement in Public Education; Bibliography |
| Summary |
This research-based book provides details on how educators can dramatically increase student achievement. It offers numerous experience-based ideas and strategies which can be applied to any school or district. This book will help you: establish a results-oriented focus on the curriculum, increase time-on-task and academic rigor for ALL students, provide a supportive accountability system for all staff members, identify and eliminate educational practices that lower student achievement, and introduce an achievement audit process that will increase student performance in any school or district |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317919520 |
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1317919521 |
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