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Office of Middle and High School Reform

 

Summary of the High School Summit  

Additional Resources
High School Reform: Essay which provides a view of the areas of the American High School system that need to be reformed in order to achieve improvement.
Resources for High School Reform lists a variety of government, public, and private groups that have an interest in high school reform.
Reform Home: A video and web project examining issues and strategies in urban high school reform.
Catalog of School Reform Models: This site is designed to help educators find an external model that meets the needs of their school. It provides descriptions of thirty-two entire-school models plus additional entries on reading/language arts, math, science, and other models.
Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform is a national network of urban school reform leaders.
Lesson Tutor: What Does School Reform Really Mean? An essay which addresses the meaning of school reform.
Technology Supports for Urban High School Reform examines the use of technology to support education reform in urban secondary school. 
West End - School Reform is a website which highlights the most promising reform efforts in the country from the federally funded Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration projects, to local approaches to school improvement and renewal
The Future of High School Reform: The Emerging Consensus is the title of an issue paper which summarizes proposals to bring the high school more in line with the challenges is faces today and highlights common themes and barriers to their successful implementation.
HSReform-Talk: The High School Reform Discussion Group: This is a daily email discussion group forum hosted and managed by Hands & Minds, Inc. established as a way for educators, community partners, and families to share designs and strategies
The Open Directory Project is a web directory which is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. This site is a subcategory of the "Issues" catalog which is geared toward the news, politics, and policies of education reform.
Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program (CSRD) is a searchable nationwide database which includes schools that have been awarded CSRD grants to implement research-based comprehensive reform models.
The National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform (NCCSR) collects and disseminates information that builds the capacity of schools to raise the academic achievement of all students.
High Schools That Work (HSTW) is the largest and oldest of the Southern Regional Education Board's seven school improvement initiatives for high school leaders and teachers. More than 1,100 HSTW sites in twenty-six states are using this framework of goals and key practices to raise student achievement.
Peaceable Schools Initiative (PSI) is a model research and demonstration project designed to change the climate of a large urban high school.
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database has brief summaries of fifty major theories of learning and instruction.
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