The Ups and Downs of Whole School Reform: A Case Study of Success and Its Demise
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Date
2009-04-11
Authors
Stockard, Jean
Dwiggins, Donna
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Publisher
National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI)
Abstract
The research literature is clear in indicating that all students can learn and schools
can be successful learning communities, no matter what the socio-economic or race-ethnic
make-up of the student body. Yet, achieving this success requires diligent efforts, and this
success can be tenuous. This paper describes the history of an elementary school in a lowincome
community with high proportions of racial-ethnic minorities and a long history of very
low achievement that implemented Direct Instruction as a whole school reform. Data were
gathered through extensive, in-depth interviews with participants and examination of
historical records; and the pages below describe Our hope is that, by examining this case
study, we can understand more about underlying dynamics that can help other
communities.
Description
22 pages
Keywords
Technical Report, Chester, PA, Underlying Dynamics of Low-income Schools