Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better

by Anthony S. Bryk, Louis M. Gomez, Alicia Grunow, Paul G. LeMahieu Narrated by Adam Verner

Overview

As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than "implementing fast and learning slow," they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to "learn fast to implement well.



Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, the authors show how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education. Organized around six core principles, the book shows how "networked improvement communities" can bring together researchers and practitioners to accelerate learning in key areas of education. Examples include efforts to address the high rates of failure among students in community college remedial math courses and strategies for improving feedback to novice teachers.



Learning to Improve offers a new paradigm for research and development in education that promises to be a powerful driver of improvement for the nation's schools and colleges.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Extremely interesting throughout, the text suggests a plan-do-study-act cycle in which reform starts small and then gradually expands as educators study their failures and learn from those mistakes."— J.D. Neal, Choice Magazine

"Guided by 'improvement science' pioneered in the medical field, Learning to Improve shows how education could finally stop its reform churn...The book's vision is ambitious--and far more likely to succeed than the reform churn we've tolerated for decades." —Lisa Hansel, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

"Learning to Improve is a content-rich, thoughtful, practical and well-organized resource for anyone committed to improving schools. It inspires practitioners, researchers and policy analysts to work together in networked improvement communities to 'learn fast to implement well.'"--Mary B. Herrmann, School Administrator

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176261042
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	01/25/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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