High autonomy and low accountability: Case study of five Czech schools by Dominik Dvořák, Petr Urbánek, Karel Starý

“…The discussion stresses the problem of time frame in evaluating system wide interventions and also sketches a vision of new emerging school reform discourse. Processes of change in five Czech “combined” primary and lower secondary schools were studied by qualitative longitudinal multiple case study for over 5 years. …”
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Leadership and Design of Data-Driven Professional Networks in Schools by Yi-Hwa Liou, Jeffrey Grigg, Richard Halverson

“…We found that the prescriptive approach to instructional leadership uses comprehensive school reform as a focal artifact to facilitate the widespread use of data for learning when compared to a leadership perspective that aimed at cultivating teacher discretion. …”
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Authentic Leadership In Madrassas: Asserting Islamic Values in Teacher Performance by Moh. Bahzar

“…This study originates in Islamic schools in Indonesian context that school reform is now in the process of change.…”
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A Scoping Review of Colorism in Schools: Academic, Social, and Emotional Experiences of Students of Color by Jandel Crutchfield, Latocia Keyes, Maya Williams, Danielle R. Eugene

“…This review highlights possible school reform efforts to affirm all skin tones, reduce colorist biases, and offer mediation to mitigate colorist experiences in the school environment.…”
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The Role of Legal Clinics in Leading Legal Education: The Model from the Middle East by Mutaz M Qafisheh

“…The article discusses (i) re-conceptualising law schools as ‘learning organisations’, including learning to constantly scrutinize and interrogate our mental models; and (ii) adapting conventional notions of leadership to incorporate distributed leadership, marrying this with ideas from the literature on change management relating to leading school reform. It then addresses the sustainability of change, drawing on principles from environmental law to suggest how innovation in legal education can be embedded and maintained over time in an organic and dynamic process of renewal. …”
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Education for Sustainable Development and Multidimensional Implementation. A Study of Implementations of Sustainable Development in Education with the Curriculum of Upper Secondary... by Svalfors Ulrika

“…According to Agenda 21 sustainable development should be implemented in a multidimensional way. In 2011, a new school reform of upper secondary school was implemented in Sweden which further strengthened the position of sustainable development in school by inserting the term into more syllabuses. …”
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The Toronto District School Board: A global city school system's structures, processes, and student outcomes by Gillian Parekh, Joseph Flessa, Harry Smaller

“…Although schooling in some global cities is shaped by decentralization, competition, and a 'school reform industry', public education in Toronto is very much characterized by centralization and increased public investment. …”
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EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS ELECTIVE SUBJECT - SPORTS FOR ATHLETES by Milovan Ljubojević, Jelena Ilić

“…In addition to evaluating school reform. the goal of this study was to examine the relationship of students of the older school age towards the election of “Sport for athletes”. …”
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Teach For All: Storytelling “Shared Solutions” and Scaling Global Reform by Chloe Ahmann

“…Teach For All is a global network of state-based organizations that translate Teach For America’s market model of school reform into moral projects of nation-building abroad. …”
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Small schools and the pressure to consolidate. by Aimee Howley, Craig Howley

“…Its interpretation examines the way educational reformers work to valorize a multidimensional set of practices constituting “small school reform.” This reform package is, ironically, to some extent unrelated to what is actually taking place naturally in small schools and districts, where more “traditional” practices are said to be more common. …”
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Teacher Agency in Multilingual Education Policy in an Islamic Boarding School in Indonesia by Muhammad Abdurrizal, Sumardi Sumardi, Kristian Adi Putra

“…The issue of the role of teacher agency in teacher professional development and school reform has increased significantly over the last decade. …”
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Problematic Aspects of Technology Education in Slovakia by Alena Haskova, Silvia Mandulakova, Dirk Van Merode

“…The paper presents the results of various researches and studies aimed at the current development and quality of technology education done mainly at lower secondary schools in Slovakia where technology education was taught within the school subject of the same name - technology education before the school reform (2008), while currently it is taught as part of the school subject called technology. …”
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IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: STEPS AND STUDENT PERCEPTIONS by David Denton, David Andrew Wicks

“…Over the last two decades, students and teachers, across educational levels and disciplines, have been subject to a variety of school reform efforts. Nevertheless, some instructional practices, such as portfolio assessment, persist and grow in popularity even in the midst of changing educational reform goals and shifting priorities. …”
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The Texas special education cap: Exploration into the statewide delay and denial of support to students with disabilities by David E. DeMatthews, David S. Knight

“…State accountability systems have been a primary school reform initiative in the U.S. for the past twenty years, but often produce unintended negative consequences. …”
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The LieCal Project and Its Investigation of Problem-Solving Strategies as a Measure of Longitudinal Curricular Effects on Students’ Learning by Jinfa Cai, Steven Silber, Stephen Hwang, Bikai Nie, John C. Moyer, Ning Wang

“… This paper presents a summary of the important middle school findings from the LieCal Project (Longitudinal Investigation of the Effect of Curriculum on Algebra Learning) and examines in detail the longitudinal effects of a middle school reform mathematics curriculum on students’ open-ended problem solving in high school. …”
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E. Demolins' concept of pedagogy in the context of the reform movement “New Education” by Semenov, Ivan Alexandrovich

“…In addition, based on the study of original and translated texts, the author outlined the position of contemporaries of the «school reform» in relation to the traditional teacher and the system of knowledge transfer to students in general. …”
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Didactic foundations of forming mathematical competence of secondary school students in learning the syntax of the Ukrainian language by Liubov I. Artemenko

“…In implementing the New Ukrainian School reform, many problematic issues arise regarding the practical reorientation to new standards. …”
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More fragmented, and yet more networked: Analysing the responses of two Local Authorities in England to the Coalition's 'self-improving school-led system' reforms by Toby Greany

“…This paper explores school reform in England under the Conservative-led Coalition government, elected in 2010, through a focus on the changing roles and status of Local Authorities (LAs). …”
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A Waterfall Model for Providing Professional Development for Elementary School Teachers: A Pilot Project to Implement a Competency-Based Approach by Annie Savard, Stéphane Cyr

“…In 2015, the DRC undertook a transitional approach to school reform by adopting a situation-based approach “Approche par les Situations (APS)” in the elementary school curriculum. …”
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Doctoral Programs Are in Anticipation of Change: Postgraduates and Their Scientific Supervisors’ Readiness by L. F. Krasinskaya, A. S. Klimova

“…Nowadays a postgraduate school reform is expected. It aims at enhancing the scientific preparation of postgraduate students and increasing the number of dissertations. …”
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