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Education Service Agencies: Initiating, Sustaining, and Advancing School Improvement

 
 
Product Description  This document reports the findings of a study conducted to determine the types of services education agencies provide to low-performing schools in the Central Region and nationwide.  
Authors  Monette McIver
Target Audience  Policymakers
Ways to Use this Product  To stimulate conversation about how best to use the services of education service agencies, to begin to understand the range of services agencies currently provide, and to glean ideas for making changes to current services or for providing additional services to schools or districts.  
Key Ideas  
This report begins with a brief history and overview of education service agencies, including how they are structured and the services they traditionally have provided. In the next section, the methodology and findings of this study are presented. The report concludes with a discussion of issues for education service agencies--and those who use their services--to consider.
How to Get this Product  Download the PDF file and the Appendix pdf.
APA Citation  McIver, M. (2002). Education service agencies: Initiating, sustaining, and advancing school improvement. Aurora, CO: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.