Title An evaluation of the public schools of the District of Columbia : reform in a changing landscape / Committee for the Five-Year (2009-2013) Summative Evaluation of the District of Columbia Public Schools, Board on Testing and Assessment, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : charts (some color) Contents Introduction -- Context for school reform in D.C. -- Coordination, efficiency, and lines of authority -- Improving teacher quality -- Learning conditions -- Outcomes -- Synthesis, Conclusions, and recommendations -- Appendices Summary " ... a comprehensive five-year summative evaluation report for Phase Two of an initiative to evaluate the District of Columbia's public schools. Consistent with the recommendations in the 2011 report A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia's Public Schools, this new report describes changes in the public schools during the period from 2009 to 2013 ... [and] examines business practices, human resources operations and human capital strategies, academic plans, and student achievement. This report identifies what is working well seven years after legislation was enacted to give control of public schools to the mayor of the District of Columbia and which areas need additional attention."--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) Notes Online resource Online resource; title from PDF title page (NAP, viewed September 29, 2015) Subject Educational change -- Washington (D.C.) -- Evaluation Schools -- Washington (D.C.) -- Evaluation Compensatory education -- Washington (D.C.) -- Evaluation EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. Compensatory education -- Evaluation Educational change -- Evaluation Schools -- Evaluation Washington (D.C.) Form Electronic book ISBN 9780309373814 0309373816

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