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Positive Change Written Works: Article Detail |
Listen and Learn
Author: James Bushman , Walter Buster
Leadership
Date: 01/01/2002
Volume: 31
Issue: 3
Pages: 30
Annotation: Across the nation, educators strive to provide the best educational opportunities for the students they serve. In the process, administrators and employee groups promulgate their ideas about what schools should be, as do school boards, who define the perimeters of the districts they govern. But do school districts really provide the educational environment their school community desires? Just what do parents, students and community members want from their public schools?
A midsize (30,000) district in the San Joaquin Valley looking to answer this question tried something new at its 2001 administrative charge. Instead of having district administrators ruminate about the usual collection of research trends or the many laurels from its past successes, they instead asked school and district administrators to engage in a large research project designed to interview members of the school community.
Resource Files:
Educational Reform (doc )
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(submitted by Lisa Dinga)
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