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Download full textFouts, Jeffrey T. – 1994
In 1990, Kent-Meridian High School in Kent, Washington, decided to implement four schools within schools, each with its separate academic and career focus. The first section of this paper outlines the 3-year evaluation plan for the Health/Science School (1992-1995), with a focus on identifying program outcomes and developing assessment measures.…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, High Schools, House Plan, Nontraditional Education
Oxley, Diana; And Others – 1990
This report concludes that the house plan should be the centerpiece of a systematic restructuring of New York City neighborhood high schools to reduce the dropout rate and improve academic achievement. The house plan is based on the subdivision of one or more grades into smaller schools within schools. Long-term monitoring of New York City dropout…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Educational Improvement
Bland, June – 1990
This evaluation of the 1988-89 Public Private Partnership (PPP) program in Washington (District of Columbia) was seriously limited by the unavailability of statistical data on student progress and internship performance. PPP was designed to improve the preparation of high school students for the world of work by involving community businesses in…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, High Schools
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. – 2003
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds a 5-year program supporting the start-up of new small high schools of no more than 400 students and the conversion of larger high schools into smaller, more personalized schools or learning communities. This report focuses on the program's first year and compares new small schools, large high schools…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Ancess, Jacqueline; Ort, Suzanna Wichterle – 1999
In 1992, a collaboration of educational reform organizations, the New York City Board of Education, a teachers' union, and private funders created a model of urban high school reform that was practitioner-driven. Two failing high schools, one in Manhattan and one in the Bronx, were phased out while 11 new, small autonomous high schools were…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Practices, Graduation Rate
Gordon, Randy – 1992
School within a School (SWS) is a locally funded program in the Des Moines (Iowa) Public Schools of instruction in basic skills, career guidance, and counseling support for at-risk 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th graders in comprehensive middle schools and high schools. In 1991-92, 323 high school students and 67 middle school students participated. As…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Career Guidance, Class Size
