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Mayer, Anysia P. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2010
This article identifies factors that promoted the successful implementation of an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in an urban high school. The study draws on data from an in-depth case study at a large high school serving an urban community in a Western state. The study investigates seven implementation mechanisms that research…
Descriptors: High Schools, Program Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs, Program Implementation
Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Koedel, Cory – Public Policy Institute of California, 2010
The San Diego Unified School District, the nation's eighth-largest, launched an ambitious program of literacy reforms in 2000 aimed at narrowing reading achievement gaps. Known as the Blueprint for Student Success, the program ran through 2005. The reforms succeeded in boosting the reading achievement of students who had been identified as lagging…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Educational Change, Achievement Gap, Program Evaluation