'Trusting' School Community Linked to Student Gains
Two
researchers contend that they have found the "missing ingredient"
without which schools stand little chance of improving: a strong bond
of trust among members of the school community.
In Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement , University of Chicago professors Anthony S. Bryk and Barbara Schneider express their support for improving the quality of instruction, measuring student performance, and reshaping education governance. But they argue that without trusting relationships among teachers, principals, parents, and students, such efforts are likely doomed to fail.
"We have identified a missing ingredient in the reform recipes: the nature of social practice among adults in school communities and how this is mobilized for sustained school improvement," the authors write in the book, published in August by the New York...
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