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Anthony S. Bryk is president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Penny Bender Sebring is founding codirector of the Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) at the Urban Education Institute at the University of Chicago. Elaine Allensworth is codirector for statistical analysis at CCSR. Stuart Luppescu is chief psychometrician at CCSR. John Q. Easton is executive director at CCSR.
Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Prologue: A Tale of Two Schools | p. 1 |
Introduction: A Rare Opportunity to Learn about School Improvement | p. 12 |
Developing Appropriate Outcome Indicators | p. 29 |
A Framework of Essential Supports | p. 42 |
Testing the Framework of the Essential Supports | p. 79 |
Probing Deeper: Organizational Mechanisms | p. 97 |
Trust, Size, and Stability: Key Enablers | p. 137 |
The Influences of Community Context | p. 158 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 197 |
Socioeconomic Status Factor | p. 223 |
A Value-Added Indicator: A School's Academic Productivity Profile | p. 225 |
Overview of the Fourteen Indicators for the Five Essential Supports | p. 231 |
Probability Experiment to Evaluate Results Presented in Figure 3.3 | p. 242 |
Interview Questions from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods | p. 245 |
Coefficients from Analyses of Leadership in Chapter 4 | p. 246 |
Value-Added Replication Results for 1997 through 2005 | p. 250 |
Efforts of the Consortium on Chicago School Research to Build More Productive Ties between Research, Practice, and Policy to Improve Practice | p. 252 |
Notes | p. 257 |
References | p. 285 |
Index | p. 297 |
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