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Calls to Action - Overarching Strategies for High School Reform
Frameworks for High School Improvement | NCLB and High Schools | Comprehensive School Reform | Breaking Ranks | Charter Schools
As leaders in education reform across the nation call for change in America’s high schools, many have developed overarching frameworks to help guide the national conversation. The National High School Center offers links to some of the most influential reports that have been produced to build capacity to implement research-based practices and policies across schools, districts and states.
Comprehensive School Reform
The Catalog of School Reform Models (last updated 2004)
This website offers educators a database of descriptions for external, whole-school models that can be adapted to the needs of individual schools. It includes an analysis of each model’s approach, results, implementation assistance and costs. Additionally, it includes demographic data and contact information for at least four samples sites per model.
Effective Organization Practices for Middle and High Schools
A new report from Research for Action identifies effective organizational practices of better-performing schools in Philadelphia for grades 6-12. The report gives specific suggestions to enact effective organizational practices, along with case studies that illustrate what the practices look like when combined effectively. The report also details obstacles that schools face within the focal sphere, including systemic challenges.
Implementation Study of Smaller Learning Communities: Final Report
This report evaluates the implementation of the federal law that funds schools seeking to build small learning communities. It sought to find how schools receiving this funding used it, to what level, and what factors contributed to both successes and challenges for schools receiving the funding.
Works in Progress: A Report on Middle and High School Improvement Programs
According to a report produced by the Comprehensive School Reform Quality (CSRQ) Center, school safety, drug use, high school dropout, literacy, and transitions in and out of high school are some of the key challenges students face in today’s schools. This report provides an overview of the main issues found in America’s middle and high schools, accompanied by listings of leading high school and middle-grades improvement programs, and suggests some approaches to address these challenges.
