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Download full textHill, Paul T.; Maas, Tricia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2015
High school redesign is one of the most elusive reform challenges to date. This paper explains why personalized high schools are hard to get and keep in a traditional school district, and shows how they can be made much more broadly available through changes in policy and philanthropic investments. Drawing from examples of successful and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, High Schools, Instructional Leadership, Institutional Autonomy
Direct linkHaynes, Mariana – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2014
As one of only six states receiving a federal Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy grant, Pennsylvania has designed and implemented an innovative program that focuses on improved instruction and interventions to ensure every student is literate and graduates from high school ready for college and a career. This report describes Pennsylvania's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Student Improvement, Comprehensive Programs
Philadelphia Youth Network, 2009
Dropping out of high school is not an event, but rather a process that involves a number of complex and interrelated factors. For example, 50% of eventual dropouts can be identified as early as the sixth grade and 80% by the ninth, based on observable academic, attendance, and behavior indicators. Furthermore, the first marking period of the ninth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Achievement Need, Student Motivation
Philadelphia Youth Network, 2009
The financial benefits of a college degree are clear. Philadelphians with 1-3 years of college earn a third more than high school graduates over a working lifetime, and four-year degree-holders earn twice as much. Furthermore, college-goers contribute substantially more in tax revenues to support services provided through local, state and federal…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, High School Graduates, Best Practices, Career Readiness
Smith, Thomas J. – National High School Center, 2007
This "snapshot" illustrates how one school is managing to make a positive difference for ninth graders. It describes the Ninth Grade Success Academy, a school-within-a-school at Thomas A. Edison High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which has a number of features specifically designed to help ninth-graders make successful…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Transitional Programs, High Schools, High School Students
Peer reviewedWelsh, Janet; Domitrovich, Celene E.; Bierman, Karen; Lang, Joann – Psychology in the Schools, 2003
Describes the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative currently underway in the Tyrone Area School District. The goals of the SS/HS Initiative involve reducing risk and building competencies for students and their families through integration of law enforcement and mental health into school-based prevention efforts. Program evaluation is…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Health Promotion, Mental Health, Prevention
GLATTHORN, ALLAN A.; MANONE, CARL J. – 1961
A SOUND HONORS PROGRAM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL HAS PROVEN SUCCESSFUL ONLY WHEN BUILT UPON A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM FOR HIGHLY ABLE STUDENTS BEGUN IN THE ELEMENTARY GRADES AND CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. IN ORDER FOR THIS COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM TO OPERATE AT ALL LEVELS, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO ESTABLISH COORDINATION IN THREE MAJOR AREAS. THESE…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Comprehensive Programs, Cooperative Planning, Experimental Programs
Marvin, Michael D.; Ferderbar, Joseph – 1974
This report discusses the results of a five-year effort to develop a comprehensive planning process that would enable school districts to initiate and maintain a self-sustaining planning capability. In addition to examining the general principles and procedures of the comprehensive planning approach to school district planning, the author…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Kennelly, Louise, Ed.; Monrad, Maggie, Ed. – National High School Center, 2007
The transition from middle school to high school represents a significant event in the lives of adolescents, one that necessitates support from and collaboration among teachers, parents, counselors, and administrators at both educational levels. Successful transitions place particular emphasis on ninth-grade initiatives and can create one of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade 9, Transitional Programs, Student Attrition
Educational Research and Development Associates, West Chester, PA. – 1976
This third-party evaluation report of the BHQ (Baldwin-Whitehall, Highlands, and Quaker Valley) Career Education Project, a K-14 effort in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, focuses on student outcomes resulting from efforts at staff development, curriculum infusion, resource centers, and community involvement. Included in the report are (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, Career Education, Comprehensive Programs
Horton, Gerald T.; And Others – 1976
This report focuses on one method of human services integration--starting with a categorical funding and program base which is expanded to integrate complementary services and resources into a comprehensive service package. The four projects examined illustrate the following initial categorical bases: Community mental health services, primarily…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Counseling, Community Centers, Community Services
Fiene, Richard John; And Others – 1975
A system for evaluating and monitoring child development projects, with possible computerization capabilities, was developed for the State of Pennsylvania in connection with 26 child development projects funded by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The Ecological Monitoring Information System (EMIS), provides a series of ecological measurement…
Descriptors: Accountability, Child Care, Child Development, Cognitive Development
