An Educators' Guide to Schoolwide Reform

Acknowledgments

We would like to express our appreciation to the individuals and organizations that have contributed to this guide. The panel of distinguished advisors, who provided expert guidance on the tools used to conduct the review and the final document, consisted of: Lloyd Bond, Senior Advisor, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Joseph Coyle, Chair of the Consolidated Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Seymour Martin Lipset, Professor of Public Policy, Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University; Frederick Mosteller, Professor Emeritus, Science Center, Harvard University; Sharon Robinson, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Educational Testing Service; Isabel Sawhill, Senior Fellow and Johnson Chair, Brookings Institution; and Sam Stringfield, Chief Research Scientist, Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University.

Our thanks to Douglas Carnine, Director, National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITE), who seeded the idea for this guide with the five sponsoring organizations.

We are grateful to Cheryl Kane, Director of Research and Development, New American Schools; Sue Bodilly, Senior Social Scientist, RAND; Mark Berends, Social Scientist, RAND; Rex Hagans, Director, Planning and Service Coordination, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL); and Mark Buechler, Research Specialist, NWREL, for their support and for the thought-provoking discussions that we feel have enhanced the usefulness of this guide.

We appreciate the thoughtful reviews of the guide we received from Frank Sobol, Senior Program Specialist, Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program, U.S. Department of Education; Robert Slavin, Co-director, Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk, Johns Hopkins University; Edward Kameenui, Associate Director, NCITE; and Deborah Simmons, Associate Professor, University of Oregon.

Last but certainly not least, we wish to thank our colleagues in the sponsoring organizations, and their members, whose suggestions helped us produce a high-quality, useful resource. We especially appreciate the help from E. Burnett Bond, Assistant Director, Educational Issues, American Federation of Teachers; Marcella R. Dianda, Senior Program Associate, National Education Association; Gail C. Gross, Associate Executive Director, National Association of Elementary School Principals; Thomas F. Koerner, Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals; E. Joseph Schneider, Deputy Executive Director, American Association of School Administrators; and Ruth Wattenberg, Director of Educational Issues, American Federation of Teachers. This guide has been improved immeasurably by the time and thought they have invested in the methods and substance of this project. We are also grateful to John Forsyth, President, and Deborah Perkins-Gough, Editor in Chief, Educational Research Service, for their assistance.

Rebecca Herman
Project Director