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Loveless, Tom – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2009
This study examines tracking--the practice of grouping students into separate classes or courses based on their prior academic achievement--at the middle-school level, and the percentage of high-achieving students in tracked and untracked schools. It focuses on Massachusetts, a leader in "reforming" tracking, and the changes that have…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Track System (Education), High Achievement, Middle School Students
Boone, Elizabeth; Hartzman, Marlene; Mero, Dianne – Principal Leadership, 2004
In 1995, after years of conflict between Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and its adjacent neighborhood, the university traded "barriers for partnership and collaboration" and became part of the University Park Neighborhood Restoration Partnership (UPP). UPP was established primarily to stabilize the community by…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Nontraditional Education, Ownership, Educational Change