The evolution of the new American schools. From revolution to mainstream.

Autor/in	Mirel, Jeffrey
Titel	The evolution of the new American schools. From revolution to mainstream.
Quelle	Washington, DC: Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (2001), VI, 44 S.Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	1-888-TBF-7474
Schlagwörter	Leistungssteigerung; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Schulreform; Modellschule; Schüler; Modellversuch; Staat; Finanzierung; Kosten; Ausschreibung; Innovation; Private Trägerschaft; USA
Abstract	The New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) was established in 1991. A privately founded nonprofit organization, it was launched by CEOs from a number of major US corporations who were inspired - in large part by Lamar Alexander and Davie Kearns - to apply their acumen and experience to the challenge of reforming American elementary/secondary education. As part of President Bush' s America 2000 education strategy, the New American Schools (NAS) initiative was intended to create and deploy a series of break-the- mold schools that would stimulate a wholesale redesign of U. S. education, replacing a failing old model with sparkling new one.... In this report the author traces the development of NAS from its origins as part of the Bush-Alexander-Kearns "America 2000" education- reform initative, through the initial competition among design proposals seeking funding, the selections and winnowing of designs, implementation, evaluation and scale-up. He finds that NAS showed signs from the outset that it was headed for the education mainstream. Observers noted that the initial request for proposals (RFP) process itself attracted and rewarded established educators and familiar ideas, indeed, that nearly all the winning proposals shared similar ideas and practices rooted in the progressive education movement that has long been the dominant paradigm of American primary/secondary education.... By 2001, NAS designs were in place in more than thirty- five hundred schools. But the author explains that a series of studies published by RAND has found many of these schools still struggling to put the core elements of the designs into place.... Today, however, with billions of federal dollars subsidizing its advance, the strategy known as whole-school reform is a fixture of the U. S. education landscape. NAS did a great deal to bring that situation about. This report explores how that happened and raises questions about just how desirable it is. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2004_(CD)