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Direct linkCalaff, Kristin Percy – NASSP Bulletin, 2008
Given the challenges of a culturally and linguistically diverse student body, one exemplary high school has developed supportive schooling practices that provide academic rigor and access for all students while embracing their linguistic and cultural identities. This ethnographic study documents how this school contributed to the college…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Ethnography, Immigrants, Community Resources
Fink, Dean – 2000
Throughout the Western world, there appears to be a consensus that schools have failed to prepare children for the challenges of the emerging information age. Many high schools that start out as innovative or "break-the-mold" lose their momentum and experience an "attrition of change." They end up becoming like any other…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Rogers, Diana; Laymon, Carol A. – 1995
This document provides suggestions for community volunteer opportunities that involve students in partnerships with service agencies, governments, recycling programs, and environmental organizations. It consists of ready-to-copy project ideas complete with case studies, a set of worksheets for planning a project, and an appendix with additional…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Involvement, Environmental Education, High Schools
Download full textRoberts, Arthur D.; Cawelti, Gordon – 1984
Seventeen high schools, representing a broad cross-section of American communities, were selected to be part of a network of schools receiving help in reconceptualizing their existing general education programs. The two-year project involved meetings of the network participants with each other and with experts to help the participants develop a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change
Gilchrist, Robert S. – 1989
This document presents case studies of three excellent schools (one each at the elementary school, middle school, and high school levels), and describes the methods by which these schools achieved recognition in order to offer suggestions for community members working to improve their own schools. The book is organized into six chapters. The first…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Quality, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Schools
Hanser, Lawrence M.; Robyn, Abby E. – 2000
In 1992, the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Education jointly developed the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) Career Academy model, which provides a framework for implementation of an innovative vocational education program designed to keep dropout-prone students in school. The program, which combines military…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Career Academies, Career Education, Case Studies
