Building Capacity for Education Reform: A Policy Brief on Systemic Change

A policy brief titled 'Building Capacity for Education Reform' authored by Jennifer O’Day and published by CPRE. It provides a framework for understanding capacity in education systems, focusing on the relationships between individual, school, and district abilities. The brief describes how professional development and state assessment strategies were used to enhance capacity in states examined by CPRE.

Use Cases

• Analyze frameworks for educational capacity building based on the described relationships between individual and institutional factors.
• Study the role of professional development in systemic reform based on the strategy mentioned in the description.
• Examine the impact of state assessment policies on educational capacity based on the case studies referenced.
• Model factors influencing standards-based reform based on the conceptual framework provided.

Strengths

• Authored by a named researcher (Jennifer O’Day) and published by a known research center (CPRE).
• Provides a specific conceptual framework for analyzing educational capacity.
• Describes concrete reform strategies, including professional development and state assessment.

Limitations

• The underlying data (e.g., state case studies) is not directly accessible; only the analysis is presented.
• Row count and column-level documentation for any supporting data are absent.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

CPRE (Consortium for Policy Research in Education) via the University of Pennsylvania's ScholarlyCommons repository.

Collection Method

Policy analysis and synthesis of research.

Geography

United States (implied from focus on states examined by CPRE).