Building Instructional Quality: 'Inside-Out' and 'Outside-In' Perspectives on San Diego's School Reform. A Research Report

摘要

During the 1990s, a new policy hypothesis that focusing on the quality of teaching would provide a high-leverage means for improving student achievement began to gain currency. This study of San Diego, California's highly focused reform initiative to improve the quality of teaching examines an effort to act on this hypothesis. Based on interview, observation, survey, and record data collected at the state, district, and school levels over a five-year time period, the study offers a look at how one large, urban district developed an aggressive set of policies to improve instruction. The research examines how the district consolidated and redirected resources, redesigned the district office as well as work in schools, and mediated and leveraged state policy to further its reform agenda.