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Direct linkFriedlaender, Diane; Burns, Dion; Lewis-Charp, Heather; Cook-Harvey, Channa; Zheng, Xinhua; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2014
"Student-Centered Schools: Closing the Opportunity Gap" documents the practices and outcomes of four urban high schools that, through student-centered approaches, are preparing their students for success in college, career, and life by providing them with the building blocks of knowledge and skills they will need as adults. The schools…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Urban Schools, High Schools, College Readiness
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Download full textDarling-Hammond, Linda – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2005
A major school district in Philadelphia has been taken over, handed out and chopped up. The for-profit Edison schools opened in Philadelphia, just as Dallas had asked them to leave for a lack of measurable improvement in schools. Linda Darling-Hammond frames this article around what happened in Philadelphia because she feels that in some ways it…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Politics of Education, Urban Schools, Urban Education
