美赛参考书籍 -PROJECTING FORWARD: LEARNINGS FROM EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMIC REFORM

杨利霞

PROJECTING FORWARD:

LEARNINGS FROM EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMIC REFORM

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface:
A Context Statement, Purpose, Summary of Content,
and Intended Impacts
Luther S. Williams......................................................................................v
1. The National Science Foundation’s Systemic Initiatives:
A Retrospective Assessment
Luther S. Williams......................................................................................1
2. Systemic Reform: Vantage, Reflections, and a Prediction
Eric Hamilton ..........................................................................................23
3. Infusing Equity in Systemic Reform: Influencing the
Understanding of Equity and Excellence
Patricia B. Campbell and Eric Jolly ........................................................35
4. Thinking About the Urban Systemic Initiatives
Daniel Burke ............................................................................................43
5. The Systemic Initiatives — Lessons Learned or not Learned:
A Personal Perspective
Margaret (Midge) Cozzens ......................................................................53
6. Reflections on NSF’s Comprehensive Regional Centers for
Minorities (CRCM) Program : A Personal Essay
Costello Brown ........................................................................................63
7. Technological Innovation and Urban Systemic Reform:
Designing for Change
Jere Confrey ............................................................................................71
8. Education, Equity, and Evaluation: From Reforming to
Transforming Urban Systems
Bernice Anderson ....................................................................................87
9. The Retrospective and Reflections/Perspectives in the
Aggregateessons Learned and Recommendations
Luther S. Williams and Margaret (Midge) Cozzens ................................97
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Preface v
PREFACE
The National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated the design and provided the
support for comprehensive complex system-wide reform of science, mathematics,
and technology teaching and learning. The effort was achieved through four
programs: the Statewide Systemic Initiatives (SSI), the Urban Systemic Initiatives
(USI; focused on the 25 largest urban public school districts), the Local Systemic
Initiatives, and the Rural Systemic Initiatives (RSI; consortia of rural school
districts in a specific geographic domain), and, over time, the NSF Comprehensive
Regional Centers for Minorities Program.
This volume begins with a detailed retrospective of the programs’ goals,
elements, accountability structures, and progress that were realized, while
complying with a set of well-enumerated and uniformly employed programmatic
anchors. These anchors — four process and two outcome “drivers” — were
integral components of all systemic initiatives. Drawing on the findings of an array
of external evaluation reports and case studies, the retrospective reviews the
efficacy of systemic initiatives within the context of the specific program requirements
and varied environments. It also gives a window into the contributions of
specific variables to program achievements. In an effort to ascertain the scale and
scope of the progression of systemic reform, issues such as the problem definition,
elasticity of resources, programmatic redundancy, innovation transferability,
design-redesign based on research and development on practice, and attention to
gains in productivity are addressed.
The subsequent chapters discuss the outcomes and important lessons learned
from these systemic programs, stressing documented student mathematics and
science learning. These chapters are authored by experienced mathematics,
science, and technology educators — all fully knowledgeable of the systemic
efforts — and include former NSF systemic initiative program officers and division
directors. These chapters also include such topics as reflections from inside NSF’s
programs of educational system reform, infusing equity in systemic reform, the
Urban Systemic Initiatives in action, lessons learned and not learned from the
systemic initiatives, the comprehensive regional centers for minorities program,
technological innovation and urban systemic reform, the role of technical
assistance, and how the game was changed. The last chapter provides a summary
of the major findings and lessons learned from the systemic initiatives, with
recommendations for the future.