Recent Publications by Pat MacPherson
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The Real Multicultural Curriculum: What Happens When Students Contest Community and Curriculum
This paper, presented at the 1994 Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, considers how the process of creating a student-driven, multicultural curriculum can help address issues of difference and be part of meaningful school reform.…
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The Five School Study: Restructuring Philadelphia’s Comprehensive High Schools
A study of restructuring efforts implemented in Philadelphia’s comprehensive high schools from 1988 to 1995 as part of the Philadelphia Schools Collaborative funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. These efforts focused on two principal components:…
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Growing Smaller: Three Tasks in Restructuring Urban High Schools
In this article from Urban Education, the authors offer a framework, derived from five years of research in Philadelphia high schools, to illuminate the vision and labor necessary to make urban high school reform both…
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Homegrown Research: A Guide for School Communities
This work is intended to assist school communities in looking at research and in carrying out their own ‘home-grown’ research projects as a school improvement tool. It begins with materials and understandings drawn from two…