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Direct linkThomas, David E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This executive position paper proposes recommendations for designing reform models between public and private sectors dedicated to improving school reform work in low performing urban high schools. It reviews scholarly research about for-profit educational management organizations, high reliability organizations, American high school reform, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Low Achievement, Urban Schools
Download full textFoley, Ellen; Mishook, Jacob; Lee, Jaein – Voices in Urban Education, 2013
Despite some cuts to the nation's oldest Federal College Access Programs, known as the TRIO programs (e.g., Upward Bound), new education policies have emphasized college and career readiness. In 2010, Congress approved the College Access Challenge Grant Program, which aims to increase the number of low-income students who are ready for college.…
Descriptors: School Districts, Government Role, Program Development, College Readiness
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2013
Making Connections was the Annie E. Casey Foundation's signature place-based, community-change initiative of the 2000s. It sought to build on previous work and launch an effort focused firmly on the framework of family strengthening. The Foundation started Making Connections in 22 places, focusing eventually on first 10, then seven sites. It…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Change Strategies, Program Development, Program Implementation
Gold, Eva; Good, Deborah; Robertson-Kraft, Claire; Callahan, M. Kate – Research for Action, 2011
In April 2009, Superintendent Arlene Ackerman announced her reform plan for the School District of Philadelphia (the District)--"Imagine 2014". Among other major initiatives, "Imagine 2014" laid the groundwork for Philadelphia's Renaissance Schools Initiative. The Renaissance Initiative, set to enter its second year in 2011-12,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Outcomes of Education
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1990
Since 1988, considerable state and school/district energies have been devoted to implementing Re:Learning in Pennsylvania. This paper describes the experiences of Cycle I project directors who implemented Re:Learning in late 1988 or early 1989. Re:Learning is a national effort to redesign the total school system, based on Theodore Sizer's (1984)…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Communication
Shadle, James E. – Schools in the Middle, 1994
Describes restructuring objectives and changes at a suburban middle school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Although collaborative planning led to predictable changes (interdisciplinary teaching, advisories, flexible scheduling, common planning time, core curricula, and a discipline system), several unplanned changes occurred regarding home-school…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Goal Orientation, Intermediate Grades
Cianflocco, Sam C. – 1975
This practicum report describes in detail the efforts of a High School Task Force made up of 21 teachers to establish and operate a model high school as part of a new 4-4-4 educational plan for the Erie, Pennsylvania, schools. The Strong Vincent Comprehensive High School Renewal Site utilized curriculum revision, quarter course offerings, and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Leahy, Meredyth A. – 1986
The purpose of this report was to develop a plan for adult education staff development directed towards enhancing and expanding the delivery of training to Adult Basic Education (ABE), General Educational Development (GED), and English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) staff in Pennsylvania. It is intended to provide guidance and direction to adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Change Strategies, English (Second Language), High School Equivalency Programs
Martin, Kenneth E.; Luloff, A. E. – 1987
The diminishing role of the federal government in rural development has created an opportunity for new initiatives in this area. One potentially useful response is the creation of a state-rural policy center. Such centers can combine the efforts of land grant institutions, extension services, and state universities in the development and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Development, Federal State Relationship, Government Role
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Health, Harrisburg. – 1992
This report recommends a statewide plan of action to ensure that Pennsylvania schools provide quality school health education programs. It is the culmination of a process undertaken by the Quality School Health Education Project, initiated in response to the Year 2000 national health objective on school health education. The project identified…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
