Comparing Schools: Creating and Sustaining Dramatically Improved Secondary Schooling

• In Event: 66.019 - Exploring High Performance: Comparing Systems, Sectors, and Schools

Abstract

For over a half-century, studies of school improvement efforts in secondary education have yielded very modest results. The High Reliability (HR) programme offers a strikingly more optimistic set of results, as this paper will outline. It will look at the empirical evidence and offer some insights into the transferability of HR principals to other contexts and countries.

Authors

• Samuel C. Stringfield, University of Cincinnati

• David Reynolds, University of Southampton

• Eugene Carl Schaffer, University of Maryland - Baltimore County