Schools - The Need for Change

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A look at some programs of change that have been implemented in schools recently. The writer focuses on the trend of School Improvement Teams (SIT's) which have began taking the improvement of the school into their own hands and which is comprised of locals and staff of the specific school. This paper follows the team's work step by step.

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"Between federal, state, and popular mandates, schools have overwhelming heard a demand for change. Society is both more technologically advanced, and more sociologically varied than it was 50 or even 20 years ago when most of the programs in use today were being conceived. Many reforms have been talked about, and many schools have been ordered to implement them. Some have even tried. Despite all this, the effects of change are neither widespread nor readily visible. To the contrary, the number of at-risk students now constitute thirty percent of the school population (Hord, 1990). It appears that all the best intentions in the world have left school with much the same teaching styles and failings that were in practice decades ago. The main problem, however, does not seem to be with the programs themselves, but rather with their application."

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