Amanda Datnow is an Associate Professor of Education at the USC Rossier School of Education. She teaches in the EdD and PhD programs and is also the Associate Director of the Center on Educational Governance. She received her PhD from UCLA and was formerly a faculty member at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the politics and policies of school reform, particularly with regard to the professional lives of educators and issues of equity.
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. School level improvement efforts
3. District level reform efforts
4. Community level reform efforts
5. State level reform efforts
6. The role of reform design teams
7. The role of the Federal Government in reform efforts
8. Methodological issues in the study of systemic integration for effective reform
9. Discussion and conclusion
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