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Publications written by academic faculty from the University of Minnesota through 1997

Contributing Faculty

  • Sandra Christenson

  • David Johnson

  • Jean King

  • Karen Seashore Louis

  • James Ysseldyke


Bryk, A., Camburn, E., & Louis, K.S. (submitted) Promoting school improvement through professional communities: An analysis of Chicago elementary schools. Sociology of Education.

Christenson, S.L., Thurlow, M.T., & Sinclair, M.F. (1997). Goal 2: School completion. Reforming America' s schools: Psychology's role. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, Center for Psychology in Schools and Education.

Delaney, T.J. & Ysseldyke, J.E. (in press). Participation of rural students with disabilities and rural gifted students in open enrollment. Rural Special Education Quarterly.

Eastwood, K., & Louis, K.S. (1992). Restructuring that lasts: Managing the performance dip. School Leadership, 2, 212-225.

Evans, Karen M. & King, Jean A. (1994). Outcome based and gifted education: Can we assume continued support? The Roeper Review, 16(4), 260-264.

Evans, Karen M., & King, Jean A. (1994). Research on OBE: What we know and don't know. Educational Leadership, 51(6), 12-17.

Johnson, D.R. & Blackburn, M. (1990). Serving at-risk youth in Minneapolis: An urban action agenda for the 1990's; position paper to the Minnesota Commissioner of Education. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Public Schools.

Johnson, D.R. & Yates, B. (1990). Challenge 2000: Success for all learners. St. Paul: At Risk Learners Section, Minnesota Department of Education.

Johnson, D.R. (1990). Serving at-risk youth in Minneapolis: An urban action agenda for the 1990s. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Public Schools.

Johnson, D.R. (1994). Goals 2000: Educate America Act: Implications for youth with disabilities as they transition from school to work and adult life (Policy update). Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota, National Transition Network, Institute on Community Integration.

King, Jean A, & Lonnquist, M. Peg. (In press). Learning from the literature: Fifty years of action research. In Watt, Molly (Ed.), The role of action research in the reform of science and mathematics education. Teachers College Press.

King, Jean A. (1992). Working for long-term school improvement: Bringing research to the classroom, NASSP Bulletin, 1992, 76(545), 24-29.

Kruse, S. & Louis, K.S. (accepted). Dilemmas of teacher teaming and school reform. Educational Administration Quarterly.

Lange, C. & Ysseldyke, J.E. (1994). How school choice affects students with special needs. Educational Leadership, 52 (3), 79-80.

Lange, C., Ysseldyke, J.E., & Algozzine, B. (in press). A comparison of families with and without disabilities who use open enrollment to transfer schools. Disability Policy Studies.

Lau, Y.Y.,. Lange, C.M., & Ysseldyke, J.E. (in press). The participation of students who are identified as gifted and talented in Minnesota's Open Enrollment Option. Journal for Education of the Gifted.The Learning School and School Improvement: Linkages and Strategies. Lisse, NL: Swets and Zeitlinger.

Louis K.S. (1992). Restructuring and the problem of teachers' work. In A. Lieberman (Ed.), The changing contexts of teaching: Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Vol. 10 (pp. 138-157). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Louis, K.S. (1990). Teachers, power and school change. In W. Clune & J. Witte (Eds.), Choice and control in American education (pp. 381-390). London: Falmer.

Louis, K.S. (1992). Comparative perspectives on dissemination and knowledge use policies: Supporting school improvement. Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization. 13(3), 287-304.

Louis, K.S. (1995). Improving urban and disadvantaged schools: Dissemination and utilization perspectives. Knowledge and Policy, 13, 287-304.

Louis, K.S. (1996). Teacher engagement and real reform in urban schools. In B. Williams (ed.) Closing the Achievement Gaps: A vision to guide change in beliefs and practice. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Louis, K.S., & Loucks-Horsley, S. (Eds.). (1990). Supporting school improvement: A comparative perspective. Leuven, Belgium: Acco.

Louis, K.S., & Miles, M.B. (1991). Improving the urban high school: What works and why. New York: Teachers College Press.

Louis, K.S., & Miles, M.B. (1991). Managing reform: Lessons from a survey of an urban high schools. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2, 75-96.

Louis, K.S., & Miles, M.B. (1990). Toward effective urban high schools: The importance of planning and coping. In W. Firestone, J. Bliss, & C. Richards (Eds.), Rethinking effective schools. New York: Praeger.

Louis, K.S., & Smith, B. (1990). Teachers' work: Current issues and prospects for reform. In P. Reyes (Ed.), Productivity and performance in educational organizations (pp. 23-47). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Louis, K.S., & Smith, B. (1991). Restructuring, teacher engagement and school culture: Perspectives on school reform and the improvement of teachers' work. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2, 34-52.

Louis, K.S., Kruse, S., & Associates. (1995). Professionalism and community. Perspectives on reforming urban schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Louis, K.S., Kruse, S., & Raywid, M. (1996) Putting teachers at the center of reform: Learning schools and professional communities. NASSP Bulletin, 80, 9-22.

Louis, K.S., Kruse, S.D., & Marks, H.M. (1996). School-wide professional community. In F. Newmann (Ed.) Authentic achievement: Restructuring schools for intellectual quality. San Francisco, Jossey Bass.

Louis, K.S., Lagerweij, N.J., & Voogt, J. (1994). School improvement. In T. Husen & N. Postlethwaite (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of education (2nd ed). Oxford: Pergamon.

Louis, K.S., Marks, H., & Kruse, S. (1996). Teachers professional community in restructuring schools. American Educational Research Journal, 33(4), 757-798.

Murphy, J., & Louis, K.S. (Eds.). (1994). Reshaping the principalship: Insights from transformational reform efforts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Nathan, J. & Ysseldyke, J. (1994). What Minnesota has learned about school choice. Kappan, 75, 682-689.

Pechman, Ellen M., King, Jean A., Schach Gina, & VanDyke, Nadiene. (1993). Obstacles to restructuring: Experiences of six middle-grades schools. New York: National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching.

Phelps, A.L., & Johnson, D.R. (1992). Education and employing individuals with special needs in the year 2000: Implications for public policy. Journal of Vocational Special Needs Personnel.

Rosenblum, S., Louis, K.S., & Rossmiller, R. (1994). School leadership and teacher quality of work life in restructuring schools. In J. Murphy & K.S. Louis (Eds.), Reshaping the principalship: Insights from transformational reform efforts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Seashore Louis, Karen & King, Jean A. (1993). Reforming schools: Does the myth of Sisyphus apply? In Murphy, Joseph, Restructuring Schooling: Learning from Ongoing Efforts, Corwin Press, 216-250.

Simsek, H., & Louis, K.S. (1994). Organizational change as paradigm shift. Journal of Higher Education.

Thurlow, M.L., Ysseldyke, J.E. & Greenen, K. (in press). Future directions in educational outcomes for students with disabilities. Special Services in the Schools.

Ysseldyke, J.E. & Christenson, S.L. (1988). Linking assessment to intervention. In J.L. Graden, J.E. Zins, & M.J. Curtis (Eds.), Alternative educational delivery systems: Enhancing instructional options for all students. Washington, D.C.: National Association of School Psychologists, pp. 91-110.

Ysseldyke, J.E. & Vanderwood, M. (1994). How do I know what they're learnin'? An outcomes accountability approach. Communiquª, 22 (5), 16-18.

Ysseldyke, J.E., Lange, C.L., & Gorney, D.J., (1994). Parents of students with disabilities and open enrollment: Characteristics and reasons for transfer. Exceptional Children, 60, 359-372.

Ysseldyke, J.E., Thurlow, M.L. & Spande, G. (1994). Bringing school reform into the school. Communiquª;, 22 (5), 1-2.

Ysseldyke, J.E., Thurlow, M.L. Algozzine, B., & Nathan, J. (1991). Open enrollment and students with disabilities: Issues, concerns, fears, and anticipated benefits. Minneapolis: Enrollment Options for Students with Disabilities Project.


Publications Written by Academic Faculty from Vanderbilt University through 1997

Contributing Faculty

  • Paul Cobb

  • Angelo Collins

  • Carolyn Evertson

  • Earline Kendall


Bybee, R., Champagne, A., Collins, A., Florio, D., Pratt, H., and Worth, K. (1995) National Science Education Standards: A Curriculum Perspective. In (R. Bybee & J. McInerney Eds.) Redesigning the Science Curriculum. Colorado Springs: BSCS.

Cobb, P. (1990). Multiple perspectives. In L. P. Steffe & T. Wood (Eds.), Transforming children's mathematics education: International Perspectives. (pp. 200-215). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Cobb, P. (1991) Reconstructing elementary school mathematics. Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 13 (2), 3-32.

Collins A. (1996) Characteristics and problems of national science education standards. In R. Bybee and H. Pratt (Eds.) National Standards and the Science Curriculum, Dubuque: Kendall Hunt.

Collins A. (1996) National Science Education Standards: Promises and Pitfalls. The Science Teacher. 63(5) 8. Arlington: National Science Teachers Association.

Collins A. (1997) National Science Education Standards: Looking Backward and Forward. In The Elementary School Journal, 97(4) 299-313.

Evertson, C.M. & Randolph, C.H. (1992). Teaching practices and class size: A new look at an old issue. Peabody Journal of Education, 67 (1), 85-105. [Special issue on Tennessee's Project STAR, J. Folger (Ed.)].

Evertson, C.M., & Murphy, J. (1992). Beginning with the classroom: Implications for redesigning schools, In H. Marshall (Ed.) Redefining student learning: Implications for educational change, Norwood NJ: Ablex.

Evertson, C.M., Weeks, K.W., & Randolph, C.H. (in press). Creating learning centered classrooms: Implications for classroom management. Paper commissioned for Blue Ribbon Schools, OERI, US Department of Education.

Kendall, E.D. (1989). Teacher education reform: A small college's response, AILACTE Occasional Paper No. 10. Beliot, WI: Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges of Teacher Education.

Randolph, C.H., & Evertson, C.M. (1994). Images of management in a learner-centered classroom. Action in Teacher Education, 16(1), 55-64.

Wheatley, G. H., & Cobb, P. (1990). Analysis of young children's spatial constructions. In L. P. Steffe & T. Wood (Eds.), Transforming children's mathematics education: International Perspectives (pp. 167-173). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Wood, T., Cobb, P., & Yackel, E. (1991). Change in teaching mathematics: A case study. American Educational Research Journal, 28, 587-616.

Wood, T., Cobb, P., Yackel, E., & Dillon, D. (1993) (Eds.). Rethinking elementary school mathematics: Insights and issues. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education Monograph No. 6. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. 122 pages.

 

 

 

 

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