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This executive position paper proposes recommendations for designing reform models between public and private sectors dedicated to improving school reform work in low performing urban high schools. It reviews scholarly research about for-profit educational management organizations, high reliability organizations, American high school reform, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Low Achievement, Urban Schools
Download full textBLAIR, MARGARET; AND OTHERS – 1968
APPROXIMATELY 100 EDUCATORS FROM FIVE STATES AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS PARTICIPATED IN AN INSTITUTE TO HELP INSTRUCTIONAL AND GUIDANCE PERSONNEL IMPROVE THE VOCATIONAL ORIENTATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE PREPARING TO ENTER THE WORLD OF WORK. THE AGENDA CONSISTED OF SPEECHES ON VOCATIONS, GROUP SESSIONS TO DISCUSS VOCATIONAL PROGRAM…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, High Schools, Horticulture, Institutes (Training Programs)
Lawer, Jo Ann; Cromley, Lynn – 1992
The Family Support Act of 1988 presented states with a unique opportunity to address the needs of pregnant and parenting teens. The Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Public Welfare have seized this opportunity and are leading the nation in combining their programmatic and fiscal resources to expand the state's teen parent initiative. The…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Agency Cooperation, Early Parenthood, High Schools
Philadelphia School District, PA. – 1971
The Parkway Program was designed to investigate the possibility that a high school could be organized independently of any fixed institutional facilities, whether these be a school building or a fixed faculty. One hundred and forty-three Philadelphia High School students were selected at random from among applicants representing all eight…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Experiments, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Innovation
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1970
The material included in this report describes a plan which the Center for Urban Education developed and which Research for Better Schools, Inc., submitted to the Harrisburg City School District Board. The major purpose of the report was to promote open discussion of educational excellence, racial balance, equity, stability, and economy at many…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Involvement, Early Childhood Education, Educational Planning
Barrett, Leverne A.; Mack, Rodney P. – 1977
A comprehensive course of study for natural resources was developed and offered to eleventh and twelfth grade students as an elective, to determine whether such a program was feasible in a high school vocational setting. An area-wide survey of environmental occupations was conducted and an advisory committee made recommendations as to course…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Conservation (Environment), Curriculum Development
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Div. of Counseling and Educational Psychology and Career Studies. – 1988
Vocational staff from 10 Pennsylvania vocational schools were given information and instructional materials to enable them to create effective programs for disadvantaged populations. A needs assessment was conducted to identify specific needs of the participating vocational staff pertaining to programming for disadvantaged students. After…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Computer Uses in Education, Counseling Services, Counselor Training
