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Berman, Sheldon H. – Principal Leadership, 2004
Because the national education agenda is focused on standards, testing, and accountability, schools are at risk of narrowly defining their mission as improving test scores. In this environment, it is easy to forget that public education serves a larger civic mission. Preserving and promoting a democratic society was the founding precept of the…
Descriptors: High Schools, High School Students, Citizenship Education, Civics
McIntosh, Hugh; Berman, Sheldon H.; Youniss, James – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2007
In September 2003, Hudson High School in Hudson, Massachusetts launched two new civic development efforts--clustering and schoolwide governance--and moved into a new building designed to facilitate them. Clustering is designed to achieve a sense of community within a large school by creating small communities of 100 to 150 students. To create…
Descriptors: High School Students, Intervention, Citizenship Education, Focus Groups