Over the past ten years, there have
been several different types of approaches to reforming
American education. At CEG, we have undertaken research
projects investigating efforts to change education
on a large scale, focusing on both school and district
level issues and the intersection between them. One
significant area of work for us has been evaluating
the implementation of comprehensive school reform models.
Comprehensive school reform models are externally-developed,
whole-school models for change, designed to affect
many elements of a school's functioning from governance
to classroom practice. A second and more recent area
of work for CEG researchers is district-wide reform.
District-wide reform efforts are those that affect
most or all schools in a given system. We are currently
conducting a study on school systems that are particularly
effective due to their data-driven practices and a
study of district reform in California, focusing on
superintendents.
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