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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461314903321

Autore

McNaughton S (Stuart)

Titolo

Designing better schools for culturally and linguistically diverse children : a science of performance model for research / / by Stuart McNaughton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-12702-4

9786613127020

1-136-85917-9

0-203-83582-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

371.82900993

Soggetti

Children of minorities - Education - New Zealand

School improvement programs - New Zealand

Education - Research

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ongoing optimism, persistent pessimism and their roots -- Weighing up the evidence -- Explaining our limitations -- Optimism in the detail -- Problems for an optimist: Matthew effects -- What is being effective?: acceleration and other problems -- Summer learning -- Sustaining change -- Scaling up change -- Nested and coherent systems -- A science of performance -- Notes on a cautious optimism: making more effective systems.

Sommario/riassunto

How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust 'science of performance' model of school change based on a specified process of research and development in local contexts, this book:lays out the traditions of optimism and pessimism about effective schooling for at-risk students reviews the international and national evidence for the effectiveness of schools and school systems in reducing disparities in