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Download full textHill, Paul T.; Maas, Tricia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2015
High school redesign is one of the most elusive reform challenges to date. This paper explains why personalized high schools are hard to get and keep in a traditional school district, and shows how they can be made much more broadly available through changes in policy and philanthropic investments. Drawing from examples of successful and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, High Schools, Instructional Leadership, Institutional Autonomy
Johnston, J. Howard – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2012
Boys have a slight advantage in the number of live births in the US (about 101:100), so, all things being equal, it is reasonable to assume that they would populate institutions at about the same rate as girls. However, institutions are social structures, and in social systems all things are almost "never" equal, so, clearly, there are other…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Attendance, Males, Social Systems
Direct linkParsi, Ace; Plank, David; Stern, David – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ3), 2010
There is widespread agreement that many of California's high schools are doing a poor job of preparing their students for college and careers. The James Irvine Foundation is sponsoring a major initiative to develop "Multiple Pathways"--now called the Linked Learning approach--as a strategy for improving the performance of California high…
Descriptors: Evidence, High Schools, Program Costs, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewedAguilar, Cynthia Mata; Morocco, Catherine Cobb; Parker, Caroline E.; Zigmond, Naomi – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2006
Middletown High School is a comprehensive high school with 1,970 students, located in the environs of Washington, DC. It is distinguished by an open enrollment policy for all courses; a strong emphasis on inclusion of students with learning disabilities (LD) in general education classrooms; block scheduling that allows for more in-depth and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs
