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PACTS: The Coalition for Change: How One District's Effort to Change Could Help You Build a Better School
By: Bill CollinseBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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PACTS: The Coalition for Change offers a case study chronicling the efforts of one urban high school district in Northern California to change its curriculum. It quantifies surveyed responses solicited from parents, administrators, curriculum leaders, teachers, and students in the district. It also assesses their level of agreement on issues relating to mathematics reform.
These agents of change constitute the PACTS Coalition. As a group, they generally agree that mathematics is a tough subject and that it should be fun; however, their level of agreement vacillates when the investigation turns to issues such as ability level grouping, the incorporation of diversity, and the question of inclusion.
In general, members of the alliance believe that the effect of reform efforts has been deleterious to the overall quality of mathematics education at their school site and in the district. Many respondents cite poor communication, ineffectual leadership, and a lack of direction as chief deterrents to effective mathematics reform; additionally, most agree that cohesion, unity, and morale among the mathematics staff in the district have suffered as a result.
Author Bill Collins shows that the varying perspectives of the PACTS Coalition is key to recognizing the complexity of educational issues while revealing the vision needed for lasting education reform.
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| Title of eBook: PACTS: The Coalition for Change: How One District's Effort to Change Could Help You Build a Better School | |
| Release Date: 03-25-2011 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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PACTS: The Coalition for Change: How One District's Effort to Change Could Help You Build a Better School
Chapter One
Introduction
A Statement off the Problem
In 1985, the California Department of Education drafted the Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools in response to national criticism regarding the plight of the American public education system. The Framework was to provide direction, guidelines, and leadership to local school districts in their attempts to improve schools. Like many other districts in the state, the Elizabeth Union High School District made major changes to its mathematics curriculum and methods of instruction in response to the Framework. The purpose of this study is to assess the changes made to the mathematics curriculum in the Elizabeth Union High School District in light of the California State Mathematics Framework. The study intends to determine whether the district's efforts to implement state's guidelines worked to meet the needs of its students.
Overview
In 1983, the national report, A Nation at Risk, sounded an alarm on the state of the American public schools. It blamed schools for failing to prepare American youth to compete in an ever increasing global marketplace. After its publication, many other reports joined the call for dramatic change in the American educational system and the 1980s became a decade of reform. Many states joined the call for change by passing education-reform acts. Their aim was to leverage control and to force improvements of schools at the district level. Because mathematics was viewed as key to opportunity in this global marketplace, criticism of mathematics education in America was particularly harsh.
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