Seeing It Through
Completion Data
Balfanz, R. & Legters, N. Weak promoting power, minority concentration, and high schools with severe dropout rates in urban America: A multiple cohort analysis of the 1990’s using the common core of data. Prepared for Making Dropouts Visible, a conference sponsored by the Civil Rights Project of Harvard University and Jobs for the Future.
Berktold, J., Geis, S., & Kaufman, P. (1998). Subsequent educational attainment of high school dropouts. U.S. Department of Education. (NCES 98-085).Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics.
Haycock, K. & Huang, S. (2001, Winter). Are today’s high school graduates ready? Thinking K-16, 5(1), 3-17.
Kaufman, P., Alt, M.N., & Chapman, C.D. (2001). Dropout rates in the United States: 2000. (NCES 2002-114). U.S. Department of Education. Washington D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics.
National Center for Education Statistics. “Outcomes of education.” In Digest of Education Statistics, 2001 (Chapter 5). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.
Swanson, C.B. (2003). Keeping count and losing count: Calculating graduation rates for all students under NCLB accountability. A Paper Prepared for Making Dropouts Visible, a conference sponsored by the Civil Rights Project of Harvard University and Jobs for the Future.
Influences on Students
Blum, R. & Rinehart, P. (No date: Based on data published in 1997) Reducing the risk: Connections that make a difference in the lives of youth. Bethesda, Maryland: Add Health/Burness Communications.
Lee, J. (2003, June). The benefits of preschool for high school and beyond. Prepared for the CCSSO Summer Institute, Lake Tahoe, NV.
Southern Regional Education Board (2002). Opening the doors to the future: Preparing low achieving middle grades students to succeed in high school. Atlanta: Southern Regional Education Board.
Vision
Barth, P. (2003, Spring). A common core curriculum for the new century. In Thinking K-16, 7(1), 3-25.
Carnevale, A.P. & Desrochers, D.M. (2001). Help wanted…credentials required: Community colleges in the knowledge economy. A joint publication of the Educational Testing Service and the American Association of Community Colleges. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
Daggett, W.R., (2002). Achieving reading proficiency for all. Rexford, New York: International Center for Leadership in Education.
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (2003, March). The economic imperative for improving education. Policy and Practice Briefs. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
Leading Organizational Change
Elmore, R. (2002, January/February). The Limits of “Change.” Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Letter Research Online.
Gary, L. (2002). Surviving leadership with Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky. Adapted from the March 2002 issue of Harvard Management Update.
Heifetz, R. & Linsky, M. (2002). When leadership means saying ‘I am part of the problem here.’ Excerpted with permission from Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading, Harvard Business Press.
Kaba, M. (2001, February). So Much Reform, So Little Change: Building-level Obstacles to Urban School Reform. In Journal of Negro Education. Chicago: Northwestern University.
Lagace, M. (2003). Leadership in real life. HBS Working Knowledge Close Up.
Taylor, W. (1999, June). The leader of the future. In Fast Company, 25, 130.
Strategies and Policies
Bottoms, G. (2002, February). Can achievement improve in low-performing high schools by using a comprehensive school reform design? Paper prepared for Aspen Institute Congressional Seminar “The New Challenge for Public Education: Secondary School Reform - Designs, Standards and Accountability.”
Callan, P.M. & Finney, J.E. (2003). Multiple pathways and state policy: Toward education and training beyond high school. Boston: Jobs for the Future.
Cohen, Michael. (2001). Transforming the American high school: New directions for state and local policy. Boston and Washington D.C.: Jobs for the Future and the Aspen Institute. Early college high school initiative. Core Principles. Boston: Jobs for the Future.
Hamann, E.T. & Lane, B. (2002). “We’re from the state and we’re here to help”: State-level innovations in support of high school improvement. Providence, RI: Education Alliance.
Husbands, J. & Beese, S. (2001, July). Review of selected high school reform strategies. Paper presented at the Aspen Program on Education Workshop on High School Transformation, Aspen, CO.
Kleiner, B., Porch, R. & Farris, E. (2002). Public alternative schools and programs for students at risk of education failure: 2000-2001. (NCES-004). U.S. Department of Education. Washington D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics.
Lachat, M. A. (2001). Data-driven high school reform: The breaking ranks model. Providence, RI: Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory.
Joftus, S. (Ed.). (2003). Left out and left behind: No Child Left Behind and the American high school. Washington D.C.: Alliance for Excellent Education.
Joftus, S. (Ed.). (2002). Every child a graduate: A framework for an excellent education for all middle and high school students. Washington D.C.: Alliance for Excellent Education.
Jones, S.L. & McPartland, J.M. (2002, February). Three reform requirements for raising achievement in low-performing high schools: Organizational, instructional, and professional development improvements. Paper prepared for Aspen Institute Congressional Seminar “The New Challenge for Public Education: Secondary School Reform - Designs, Standards and Accountability.”
Martinez, M. & Bray, J. (2002). All over the map: State policies to improve the high school. Washington D.C.: National Alliance on the American High School.
McNeil, P. W. (2003). Rethinking high school: The next frontier for state policymakers. Washington D.C.: Aspen Institute.
National Association of State Boards of Education (2002). Most likely to succeed: Policymaking in support of a restructured high school. Alexandria, VA: NASBE.
National Commission on the High School Senior Year. (2001). Raising our sights: No high school senior left behind. Princeton, NJ: The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Pennington, Hilary. Building one system for youth development and opportunity. In Shaping the Future of American Youth: Youth Policy in the 21st Century, 59-68.
Steinberg, A., Almeida, C., Allen, L., and Goldberger, S. (2003). Four building blocks for a system of educational opportunity: Developing pathways to and through college for urban youth. Boston: Jobs for the Future.
Steinberg, A. & Allen, L. (2002). From large to small: Strategies for personalizing the high school. Boston: Jobs for the Future.
Togneri, W. (2003, March). Beyond islands of excellence: What districts can do to improve instruction and achievement in all schools – A leadership brief. Washington, DC: Learning First Alliance.
Visher, M. G., Emanuel, D., and Teitelbaum, P. (1999). Key high school reform strategies: An overview of research findings. Berkeley, CA: MPR Associates, Inc.
Strategies and Policies – Virtual Schools
Fulton, K. (2002, Summer). The brave new world of virtual schooling in the U.S. The State Education Standard, 30-35.
Thomas, W. R. (2000). Web courses for high school students: Potential and issues. Atlanta: Southern Regional Education Board.
Thomas, W.R. (2000). Considerations for building a state virtual school: Providing web-based courses for K-12 students. Atlanta: Southern Regional Education Board.
Students Speak Out
Public School Students of the Bronx, NY, and What Kids Can Do (2003). The schools we need: Creating small high schools that work for us. New York: What Kids Can Do, Bronx New Century High Schools, and the Carnegie Corporation.
Temple University High School Issues Papers
link: http://www.temple.edu/cpp/hs_issue_papers.htm
