A Framework for Change: A Broader and Bolder Approach to School Reform

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

A substantial body of evidence suggests that past reforms have largely failed to improve schools in urban areas. The presenters contend that prior efforts failed because they did not address the numerous ways that past research has shown poverty influences student academic outcomes and school performance. The presenters’ call for a new approach to school improvement, one that draws upon the principles advocated by the Broader and Bolder Approach, and includes: evidence-based instruction, community engagement, and the strategies that have been pursued by the Harlem Children’s Zone, the Children’s Aid Society, and a small number of similar efforts that attempt to mitigate the effects of poverty.

Sub Unit

• Presidential Session

Cosponsor

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Educational Policy and Politics

Chair

• Ernest D. Morrell, Teachers College, Columbia University

Participants

• Julio Cammarota, The University of Arizona

• Shawn A. Ginwright, San Francisco State University

• Augustine Francis Romero, Tucson Unified School District

• A.A. Akom, San Francisco State University

• Patrick Camangian, University of San Francisco

Discussant

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago