Publication

2004 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

51,250 words, Guess

Page Count

205 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing4830417

Classifications

  • LCCLC89 .S54 2004

Description

"After intensively studying several school districts' responses to new statewide science and math teaching policies in the early 1990s, Spillane argues that administrators and teachers are inclined to assimilate new policies into current practices. As new programs are communicated through administrative levels, the understanding of them becomes increasingly distorted, no matter how sincerely the new ideas are endorsed. Such patterns of well-intentioned misunderstanding highlight the need for systematic training and continuing support for the local administrators and teachers who are entrusted with carrying out large-scale educational change, classroom by classroom."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Standards deviation: how schools misunderstand education policy / James P. Spillane.Harvard University Press2004-01-01

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