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Hill, 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
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Mirel, Jeffrey – Education Next, 2006
For more than a century, American educators and education policymakers have chosen sides in a great debate about the nature and function of American high schools. The origins of this long-running argument can be traced to 1893, when the influential Committee of Ten, a bluechip panel of educators, issued a report proposing that all public…
Descriptors: High Schools, Conventional Instruction, Educational History, Public Schools