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Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is a collection of three interrelated chapters that explore unique dimensions of hub-outlet school reform. This type of school reform, in which a central hub organization designs a model for instructional improvement meant to be implemented with fidelity across unique outlet school sites, has gained credibility in the crowded…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Organization, High Schools, Instructional Improvement
Romanik, Dale – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2007
Researchers have identified ninth grade as one of the most critical periods of time for intervention to prevent the loss of motivation, failing grades, and dropping out of school. This Information Capsule is concerned with the efficacy of ninth-grade centers or academies which isolate ninth-grade students into separate school buildings or in wings…
Descriptors: High School Freshmen, Grade 9, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), School Organization
Oakes, Jeannie, Ed.; Saunders, Marisa, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2008
"Beyond Tracking" responds to the a sobering assessment of American high schools by delineating and promoting an innovative and well-defined notion of multiple pathways. The book's authors clearly distinguish their use of the term "multiple pathways" from any updated version of the tracking system that marked so many American high schools during…
Descriptors: Evidence, High Schools, Democracy, Second Language Learning