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An evaluation of the public schools of the District of Columbia : reform in a changing landscape / Committee for the Five-Year (2009-2013) Summative Evaluation of the District of Columbia Public Schools, Board on Testing and Assessment, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : charts (some color) ; digital file (PDF)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780309373814
  • 0309373816
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 371.010973 23
LOC classification:
  • LA255 .E92 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Context for school reform in D.C. -- Coordination, efficiency, and lines of authority -- Improving teacher quality -- Learning conditions -- Outcomes -- Synthesis, Conslusions, and recommendations -- Appendices.
Summary: "... a comprehensive five-year summative evaluation report for Phase Two of an initiative to evaluate the District of Columbia's public schools. Consistent with the recommendations in the 2011 report A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia's Public Schools, this new report describes changes in the public schools during the period from 2009 to 2013 ... [and] examines business practices, human resources operations and human capital strategies, academic plans, and student achievement. This report identifies what is working well seven years after legislation was enacted to give control of public schools to the mayor of the District of Columbia and which areas need additional attention."--Publisher's website
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226).

Introduction -- Context for school reform in D.C. -- Coordination, efficiency, and lines of authority -- Improving teacher quality -- Learning conditions -- Outcomes -- Synthesis, Conslusions, and recommendations -- Appendices.

"... a comprehensive five-year summative evaluation report for Phase Two of an initiative to evaluate the District of Columbia's public schools. Consistent with the recommendations in the 2011 report A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia's Public Schools, this new report describes changes in the public schools during the period from 2009 to 2013 ... [and] examines business practices, human resources operations and human capital strategies, academic plans, and student achievement. This report identifies what is working well seven years after legislation was enacted to give control of public schools to the mayor of the District of Columbia and which areas need additional attention."--Publisher's website

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