Jolley Bruce Christman
Biographic Data
| ID | 182322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jolley Bruce Christman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jolley Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Christman |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTMAN J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research for Action |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Building With Benchmarks: The Role of the District in Philadelphia's Benchmark Assessment System
In recent years, interim assessments have become an increasingly popular tool in districts seeking to improve student learning and achievement. Philadelphia has been at the forefront of this change, implementing a set of Benchmark assessments aligned with its Core Curriculum district-wide in 2004. In this article, we examine the overall context for Benchmarks in Philadelphia, the expectations district leaders had for the use of those Benchmarks, …
Learning to Learn From Data: Benchmarks and Instructional Communities
This article examines the use of interim assessments in elementary schools in the School District of Philadelphia. The article reports on the qualitative component of a multimethod study about the use of interim assessments in Philadelphia. The study used an organizational learning framework to explore how schools can best develop the capacity to utilize the potential benefits of interim assessments. The qualitative analysis draws on data from in…
Privatization Policy in Public Education: The Case of Philadelphia
Blurring the Boundaries: A Case Study of Private Sector Involvement in Philadelphia Public Schools
As a result of a state takeover, the School District of Philadelphia has been implementing a “diverse provider model” in which for‐profit and nonprofit organizations have been hired as school managers. This study explores the first three years of the model, examining the shift away from the rhetoric of competition to the evolution of a public‐private hybrid system that emphasizes collaboration between the district and the providers and among the …
Getting Real about What It Takes to Conduct Evaluation Research
Growing Smaller: Three Tasks in Restructuring Urban High Schools
Demoralized by high failure rates, unwieldy bureaucracies, and entrenched adversarial relationships, urban school populations struggle in harsh conditions. In this article, the authors offer a framework derived from S years of ethnographic research in Philadelphia high schools, to illuminate the vision and labor necessary to make urban school reform both systemic and doable. They identify and describe three tasks-building community, generating kn…
Taking stock/making change: Stories of collaboration in local school reform
Doing Eve's Work: Women Principals Write about Their Practice
Implementing a Systemwide Promotion Policy: Dilemmas for Principals and Teachers in Urban Schools
In the 1980s, educational policymakers frequently have sought to regain public confidence in American schooling by instituting policies that mandate higher standards for student promotion and graduation. State and local educational agencies have drafted policies that set minimum competency requirements (measured through standardized tests) and increase the number of courses required for graduation. School districts have adopted promotion policies…
Working in the Field as the Female Friend
This article describes a researcher's subjective experience of fieldwork conducted among her own group: returning women graduate students. It builds upon the work of feminist ethnographers who have sought to connect their feelings about the research process to their research accounts. It focuses on interactions between the researcher and her informants and discusses how these interactions affected the course of the research, the study's findings,…
Building With Benchmarks: The Role of the District in Philadelphia's Benchmark Assessment System
In recent years, interim assessments have become an increasingly popular tool in districts seeking to improve student learning and achievement. Philadelphia has been at the forefront of this change, implementing a set of Benchmark assessments aligned with its Core Curriculum district-wide in 2004. In this article, we examine the overall context for Benchmarks in Philadelphia, the expectations district leaders had for the use of those Benchmarks, …
Learning to Learn From Data: Benchmarks and Instructional Communities
This article examines the use of interim assessments in elementary schools in the School District of Philadelphia. The article reports on the qualitative component of a multimethod study about the use of interim assessments in Philadelphia. The study used an organizational learning framework to explore how schools can best develop the capacity to utilize the potential benefits of interim assessments. The qualitative analysis draws on data from in…
Taking stock/making change: Stories of collaboration in local school reform
Blurring the Boundaries: A Case Study of Private Sector Involvement in Philadelphia Public Schools
As a result of a state takeover, the School District of Philadelphia has been implementing a “diverse provider model” in which for‐profit and nonprofit organizations have been hired as school managers. This study explores the first three years of the model, examining the shift away from the rhetoric of competition to the evolution of a public‐private hybrid system that emphasizes collaboration between the district and the providers and among the …
Working in the Field as the Female Friend
This article describes a researcher's subjective experience of fieldwork conducted among her own group: returning women graduate students. It builds upon the work of feminist ethnographers who have sought to connect their feelings about the research process to their research accounts. It focuses on interactions between the researcher and her informants and discusses how these interactions affected the course of the research, the study's findings,…
Getting Real about What It Takes to Conduct Evaluation Research
Growing Smaller: Three Tasks in Restructuring Urban High Schools
Demoralized by high failure rates, unwieldy bureaucracies, and entrenched adversarial relationships, urban school populations struggle in harsh conditions. In this article, the authors offer a framework derived from S years of ethnographic research in Philadelphia high schools, to illuminate the vision and labor necessary to make urban school reform both systemic and doable. They identify and describe three tasks-building community, generating kn…
Doing Eve's Work: Women Principals Write about Their Practice
Working in the Field as the Female Friend
This article describes a researcher's subjective experience of fieldwork conducted among her own group: returning women graduate students. It builds upon the work of feminist ethnographers who have sought to connect their feelings about the research process to their research accounts. It focuses on interactions between the researcher and her informants and discusses how these interactions affected the course of the research, the study's findings,…
Implementing a Systemwide Promotion Policy: Dilemmas for Principals and Teachers in Urban Schools
In the 1980s, educational policymakers frequently have sought to regain public confidence in American schooling by instituting policies that mandate higher standards for student promotion and graduation. State and local educational agencies have drafted policies that set minimum competency requirements (measured through standardized tests) and increase the number of courses required for graduation. School districts have adopted promotion policies…
Doing Eve's Work: Women Principals Write about Their Practice
Taking stock/making change: Stories of collaboration in local school reform
Growing Smaller: Three Tasks in Restructuring Urban High Schools
Demoralized by high failure rates, unwieldy bureaucracies, and entrenched adversarial relationships, urban school populations struggle in harsh conditions. In this article, the authors offer a framework derived from S years of ethnographic research in Philadelphia high schools, to illuminate the vision and labor necessary to make urban school reform both systemic and doable. They identify and describe three tasks-building community, generating kn…
Getting Real about What It Takes to Conduct Evaluation Research
Blurring the Boundaries: A Case Study of Private Sector Involvement in Philadelphia Public Schools
As a result of a state takeover, the School District of Philadelphia has been implementing a “diverse provider model” in which for‐profit and nonprofit organizations have been hired as school managers. This study explores the first three years of the model, examining the shift away from the rhetoric of competition to the evolution of a public‐private hybrid system that emphasizes collaboration between the district and the providers and among the …
Privatization Policy in Public Education: The Case of Philadelphia
Building With Benchmarks: The Role of the District in Philadelphia's Benchmark Assessment System
In recent years, interim assessments have become an increasingly popular tool in districts seeking to improve student learning and achievement. Philadelphia has been at the forefront of this change, implementing a set of Benchmark assessments aligned with its Core Curriculum district-wide in 2004. In this article, we examine the overall context for Benchmarks in Philadelphia, the expectations district leaders had for the use of those Benchmarks, …
Learning to Learn From Data: Benchmarks and Instructional Communities
This article examines the use of interim assessments in elementary schools in the School District of Philadelphia. The article reports on the qualitative component of a multimethod study about the use of interim assessments in Philadelphia. The study used an organizational learning framework to explore how schools can best develop the capacity to utilize the potential benefits of interim assessments. The qualitative analysis draws on data from in…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Educational Assessment and Improvement (4 works) · Education Systems and Policy (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)