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Educational Leadership:New Options for Public Education:Do ...
How well do students at specialized high schools perform in comparison to those at public comprehensive schools and private schools? One study has some good news for supporters of public school choice.
In the face of great challenges to our urban school systems, many believe that schools with specially defined missions, such as magnet schools, offer better academic opportunities to urban youth....
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ASCD High School Reform Proposal
In 2006, ASCD made high school reform one of its top legislative priorities and developed this proposal to help the U.S. Congress foster the innovation needed to fully support our nation's high school students.
The following year, the Getting Retention and Diplomas Up Among Today's Enrolled Students or GRADUATES Act (S. 1920/H.R. 3763) was introduced in Congress. The legislation reflects much of...
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Rethinking Parent Involvement - Educational Leadership
Support Versus Involvement
Having refined our notion of parent involvement, we asked teachers about supportive parents and active parents. As we expected, lack of participation is a prevalent problem. But more disturbing is the number of parents who are perceived as unsupportive and the effect that this has on their children. These are the parents who are at risk themselves. They may be drug...
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Use of Curriculum Mapping to Build a Learning Community
Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping
Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Chapter 2. Use of Curriculum Mapping to Build a Learning Community
by Valerie Truesdale, Claire Thompson and Michael Lucas
Learning communities don't just magically appear. They must be built with a vision for how individual educators can support the achievement of each student through an articulated, seamless curriculum....
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