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New American Schools (NAS) offers whole-school designs for schools and districts seeking to significantly raise the achievement of large numbers of students. This work has evaluated NAS reforms' effects on students and teachers in high-poverty schools.

Educational change. --- Poor children. --- School improvement programs. --- United States. --- School improvement programs --- Educational change --- Poor children --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Theory & Practice of Education --- New American Schools (Organization) --- NAS --- New American Schools Development Corporation

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How does one spread a successful educational reform? The essays here recount the authors' experiences with the scale-up process. Among their lessons are the importance of building the capacity to implement and sustain the reforms, adjusting for local culture and policy, ensuring quality control, providing the necessary infrastructure, and fostering a sense of ownership. The process is iterative and complex and requires cooperation among many actors who must ensure that the results align with goals.

Educational change - United States. --- School improvement programs - United States. --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Education --- Social Sciences --- School improvement programs --- Educational change --- Standards

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The report analyzes an array of issues pertaining to accessibility, student achievement, governance, and operation of charter schools in California. Four specific research questions were investigated: (1) What population of students attends charter schools? (2) Is student achievement higher in charter schools than in conventional public schools? (3) What oversight and support do the chartering authorities provide? (4) How do charter schools differ from their conventional public school counterparts in terms of their operation, including finances, academic achievement, and staffing?

Charter schools. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Charter schools --- Evaluation. --- Chartered schools --- Schools --- Grant-maintained schools --- Privatization in education

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For three school years, from 2007 to 2010, about 200 high-needs New York City public schools participated in the Schoolwide Performance Bonus Program, whose broad objective was to improve student performance through school-based financial incentives. An independent analysis of test scores, surveys, and interviews found that the program did not improve student achievement, perhaps because it did not motivate change in educator behavior.

Academic achievement -- New York (State) -- New York. --- Merit pay -- New York (State) -- New York. --- School improvement programs -- New York (State) -- New York. --- Teachers -- Salaries, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York. --- Teachers --- Merit pay --- School improvement programs --- Academic achievement --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Salaries, etc --- Salaries, etc. --- Academic underachievement --- Achievement, Academic --- Educational achievement --- Scholastic achievement --- Scholastic success --- School achievement --- Student achievement --- Underachievement, Academic --- Improvement programs, School --- Instructional improvement programs --- Programs, School improvement --- School self-improvement programs --- Merit increases --- Merit pay programs --- Merit pay systems --- Merit-type salary schedules --- Pay for performance --- Salary schedules, Merit-type --- Variable pay --- Faculty (Education) --- Instructors --- School teachers --- Schoolteachers --- Performance --- Success --- School management and organization --- Performance awards --- Wages --- School employees --- Academic performance --- Academic progress --- Academic success --- Achievement, Scholastic --- Achievement, Student --- Performance, Academic --- Progress, Academic --- School success (Academic achievement) --- Success, Academic --- Success, School (Academic achievement) --- Success, Scholastic

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Some argue that computer technology can facilitate learning by enhancing students' ability to experiment, practice, and experience the real world. Others feel that spending money on such technology is not worth it. In 1996, Kent School embarked on a program to integrate information technology into teaching and learning.

Education. --- Education --- Data processing --- Kent School (Kent, Conn.)