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 | Once at the forefront of educational achievement by any number of measures, the United States has dropped in standing relative to our economic partners and competitors in the global marketplace. The authors of this monograph assert that by assisting school systems to more closely resemble "high reliability" organizations (HROs) that already exist in other industries and benchmarking against top-performing education systems from around the globe, America's school systems can transform themselves from compliance-driven bureaucracies to world-class organizations. | | Authors | Chapter 1: James H. Eck, McREL
Chapter 2: Sam Stringfield, University of Louisville; David Reynolds, University of Southampton; and Eugene Schaffer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Chapter 3: G. Thomas Bellamy, University of Washington Bothell
Chapter 4: James H. Eck, McREL | | Target Audience | Administrators and Policymakers | | Ways to Use this Product | As a resource to apply the lessons learned from High Reliability Organizations to a set of principles and strategies to directly apply to our educational systems. |  Key Ideas | This issue of Noteworthy explains that providing a "best in the world" education involves knowing "what works extremely well" and delivering it with remarkable reliability. However, much more—and typically more rigorous—research exists on the subject of "what can be effective" than on "how to reliably deliver it." One chapter written by HRO researchers Sam Stringfield, David Reynolds, and Eugene Schaffer, focuses on methods for improving the reliability of educational reform efforts. Another chapter, authored by G. Thomas Bellamy, professor of education at the University of Washington Bothell, describes the distinctive organizational accomplishments of HROs, the two modes in which successful HRO leaders operate, and the areas where HRO principles do and do not transfer well to education practice and leadership. |  How to Get this Product | Download the PDF file
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| | APA Citation | Eck, J., Stringfield, S., Reynolds, D., Schaffer, E., & Bellamy, G. T. (2011). Noteworthy perspectives: High Reliability Organizations in education. Denver, CO: McREL. |
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