Updraft Downdraft: Secondary Schools In the Crosswinds of Reform

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Ever wonder why there is such a big gap in the number of students who succeed in comparison to those who do not The authors recognize this problem and offer suggestions on how to improve this phenomenon. This book provides a set of tools to assist schools and communities in reallocating their resources more effectively to help bridge the gap.

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Marilyn Crawford currently operates TimeWise Schools LC, a decision-support consulting group working with schools, districts, and state departments of education across the country. She has extensive experience in leading secondary school reform as well as in supporting reform-minded educators in a variety of roles, and specializes in maximizing school-level efficiency and effectiveness in use of secondary resources. She has a PhD in education leadership from Vanderbilt University, and is joint author of The Productive High School, a synthesis of the research on secondary education currently in publication with Corwin press.

Eleanor Dougherty is senior associate with the Education Trust, a non-profit organization in Washington D.C. that serves education communities in their efforts to improve student achievement for all students. She has experience as an elementary and secondary teacher, as well as teaching in colleges and universities. For the last several years, she has worked with high-poverty districts around the country in standards-based reforms.