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Download full textEarthman, Glen I. – 1984
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPISU) offered in Richmond (Virginia) a cooperative graduate program to prepare inservice administrators to act as change agents in Richmond-area schools. This paper considers the program's purposes, development, implementation, and future. Section I reviews the program's development, discussing…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cooperative Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Bodilly, Susan – 2001
Business leaders created New American Schools (NAS) to develop "break-the-mold" designs for schools serving grades K-12. The notion of a design was meant to convey a coherent and comprehensive set of school-level practices that unified a school behind a goal of high performance by all students. These practices would cover all grades, all students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Action, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Raywid, Mary Anne – Equity and Choice, 1992
Explores issues faced by designers of school choice systems as numbers and types of choice arrangements proliferate and become more complex. Defines elements of a successful system of choice. The system developed will depend on the intentions, assumptions, and commitments present in the initial design. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Educational Innovation
