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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
Rustique, Elle; Rutherford-Quach, Sara – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2012
This case study describes how Porterville Unified School District (PUSD), a rural school district in California's Central Valley, began to fulfill its vision to transform high school and career education through the implementation of Linked Learning. Linked Learning is a state-wide initiative for redesigning large comprehensive high schools into…
Descriptors: High Schools, Rural Schools, Career Education, School Districts
Brower, Robert E. – High School Magazine, 2000
Changing to a trimester 3 X 5 schedule at Westfield (Indiana) High School made time for more focused academic activity, individual learning opportunities, and teacher development activities. Parents, students, teachers, and administrators find the schedule highly effective; academic achievement, attendance, and graduation rates have improved. (MLH)
Descriptors: High Schools, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation, School Organization
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Kretovics, Joseph R.; And Others – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1991
Project SHAPE is a two-year intervention and enrichment program for underachieving and educationally disadvantaged ninth and tenth grade students in Toledo, Ohio. Operating through teacher empowerment; curriculum development; structural organization; and student, parent, and community involvement, SHAPE's goals are developing an academically…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Enrichment Activities
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Robinson, Viviane M. J.; Timperley, Helen – Educational Management & Administration, 1996
In the late 1980s, radical administrative changes (setting up boards of trustees and relaxing zoning restrictions) were undertaken in New Zealand's education system to make schools more responsive to their communities. This paper describes the consequences of implementing these policies, using evidence from a study of a particular high school.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Boards of Education, Decentralization, Foreign Countries
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
Matthews, L. Joseph – NASSP Practitioner, 1997
Secondary school administrators must carefully consider the ramifications of a proposed alternative scheduling plan before proceeding with implementation. The first article in this newsletter presents findings from a study that compared data from two groups of schools (one group with a 4 X 4 block plan and the other with a trimester plan) to data…
Descriptors: Alternate Day Schedules, Block Scheduling, Class Organization, Flexible Scheduling
Public Education Association, New York, NY. – 1989
This interim report evaluates the implementation of the "House Plan," a plan to create small personalized schools within the 110 large comprehensive high schools in New York (New York) by subdividing all ninth grades into separate units. This evaluation covers only the 37 "dropout prevention" high schools which had been…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Educational Facilities Improvement, Grade 9