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Article: Breakthrough.(Book review)
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- School Administrator
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- November 1, 2006
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Breakthrough
by Michael Fullan, Peter Hill and Carmel Crevola, Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif., 2006, 109 pp. with index, $24.95 softcover
Why are schools and districts failing to improve? Why do improvement initiatives often fall flat after a couple of years? The authors contend that the current paradigm of school reform has fundamental limitations with regards to student achievement, the most critical being a gap between student academic expectations and the classroom instructional practices that influence student learning.
In Breakthrough, a provocative book that is described in the forward by Professor Richard Elmore of Harvard ...