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Moving Beyond State and
Federal Accountability to
Real School Improvement
By Henry G. Cram, Ed.D., President, Middle States Association Commission
on Elementary and Secondary Schools; William T. Smith, Superintendent,
Point Pleasant Beach Schools; and Bernard F. Bragen, Jr. Ed.D., former
Superintendent, Hazlet Township Public Schools
Research on school time, focused on a clear to program changes that affect only
improvement suggests vision and supported by portions of a system on a long-term
basis, to systemic changes that have
increases in student a cohesive plan. In essence, the potential to permanently affect
performance are attainable real improvement requires systemic a system’s beliefs and practices. As
school administrators, the challenge
only when the school change. is to accomplish the latter in order
Change comes in many forms –
improvement process is from event changes that have no to move school systems forward in
a meaningful way and continuously
locally led, sustained over lasting impact on a school system, improve our student performance.
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