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Download full textEaston, John Q.; And Others – 1990
The first phase of a monitoring project to evaluate the implementation of the Chicago Reform Act, with a focus on the process of securing school participation in the study, is described in this report. Twelve schools out of a random stratified sample of 16 schools agreed to participate in the study, which was to consist of interviews and classroom…
Descriptors: Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Observation, Pilot Projects
Clinchy, Evans – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
Two national reform movements--one focused on creating small, autonomous schools, the other fixated on a standardization agenda--are basically in conflict. The standards movement is touting the traditional, top-down, centralized, bureaucratic system modeled after Frederick Taylor and his efficiency experts. Progressive, decentralized initiatives…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Charter Schools, Conflict, Decentralization
Conley, David T. – OSSC Bulletin, 1991
In 1987, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 2020, the School Improvement and Professional Development Program. Designed to encourage innovation and professional development in a select number of Oregon schools, this act was intended to upgrade educational quality and create models for other state schools. Rather than evaluating program…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants
Collins, Robert A.; Hanson, Marjorie K. – 1991
This two-part document reports on the summative, district-level evaluation of 33 Dade County (Florida) schools that participated in a 3-year pilot School-Based-Management/Shared Decision-Making (SBM/SDM) program, and describes the operation and impact of selected innovations operating in some of the schools. Evaluation information was drawn from…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making
McCarthy, Jane – 1991
The Accelerated Schools model attempts to restructure schools with high at-risk student populations and mainstream these students by the end of elementary school. A 6-year process of collaborative unity is used to identify challenge areas and move the school toward individualized solutions. The Accelerated Schools Satellite Center Project emerged…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Administrator Education, College School Cooperation, Elementary Education
Johnson, Etta Green – Equity and Choice, 1992
Daniel Webster Accelerated School in San Francisco (California) is one of two schools adopting the process of school change developed by H. M. Levin. An interview with Levin explains his philosophy of accelerated schools characterized by (1) unity of purpose; (2) school site responsibility; and (3) building on strengths. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education), Community Involvement, Educational Change
Hopfenberg, Wendy S. – 1991
The experiences of the first middle school to pilot the ideas and concepts of the Accelerated Schools Project are described. The school is an inner-city public school with a population of at-risk students presently scoring below district and state achievement averages. The 689 students are 53 percent Hispanic, 23 percent Portuguese, 17 percent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
