High schools serving disadvantaged students typically lack the requisite information on students and their performance to identify and meet their needs. Most studies on the use of information by district-level administrators, principals, teachers, and other school staff are descriptive and focus on the thought processes of individuals or groups as…

The Multilevel Evaluation Systems Project is exploring the requirements for information systems that could help teachers and administrators sort through, analyze, and apply comprehensive information about their students, community, instructional processes, and outcomes to improve their schools. Toward this end, a multi-disciplinary literature…

This paper describes some of the historical background for current practices in local curriculum development, the major participants and their roles in local curriculum development, some of the processes involved, and the major conditions necessary for successful local development. Using a broad literature base of both published and unpublished…