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Bringing a Public Voice to the School Governance Debate: The Campaign for Better Schools and Mayoral Control in New York City (Cover)
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Reforming Alone: Barriers to Organizational Learning in Urban School Change Initiatives
…unintended effect of depleting or preventing the formation of social capital among staff in a school building. Evaluations from these initiatives show that entrenched policies and practices converge to prevent…
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Philadelphia’s Teacher Hiring and School Assignment Practices: Comparisons with Other Districts – Executive Summary
The executive summary to the report compares the way the School District of Philadelphia goes about hiring and placing teachers in schools with the practices of other districts. The executive…
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Selecting a High School: Not a Level Playing Field
…students are enrolled in schools that they did not choose, according to an analysis of School District data by Research for Action. The most desirable schools, including some charters, accept…
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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…
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Boosting Adolescent and Young Adult Literacy: An Examination of Literacy Teaching and Learning in Philadelphia’s Accelerated High Schools: Executive Summary
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Blueprint for Secondary Education in Philadelphia: The Planning Process, 2006-2008 – Executive Summary
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Friends for School Purposes: Learning Communities and their Role in Building Community at a Large Urban University
…of commuter students; providing ongoing faculty development; and facilitating ways for professors to network about teaching in Learning Communities. content-module 3 View the Publication Download the Publication Visit Original Source…
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The Five School Study: Restructuring Philadelphia’s Comprehensive High Schools
…focused on two principal components: the creation of Small Learning Communities (SLCs) and the implementation of school-based management/shared decision-making (SBM/SDM) policies. This report examines how these reforms fared at five…