The Challenges of School Reform

This book The Challenges of School Reform: Impact Implementation and Sustainability explores why reforms todatehave failed to live up to expectations and it discusses promising practices and strategies for sustaining increased studentachievement.This work expands on the ideas and themes discussed in the first two volumes in this series on education policy: Thefirst book-Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement-examines the importance of teacherquality. Years of research have repeatedly confirmed what we inferred to be true-outside of the home environment the qualityof a student's teacher has the strongest impact on learning. After talented teachers were found to be a powerful componentfor bettering education the second book-Improving Student Achievement: Reforms that Work-introduces reform ideas andprograms that positively impact both teacher quality and student work. Now The Challenges of School Reform: ImplementationImpact and Sustainability deepens these discussions by exploring the answers to questions regarding ensuring the longevityand sustained success of effective school reform.