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Direct linkKramer, Catherine S.; Wilcox, Kristen C.; Lawson, Hal A. – Preventing School Failure, 2020
This multiple case study examines practices of educators in high schools called "odds-beaters". These schools are exemplary in that they consistently achieve better-than-predicted graduation outcomes among economically disadvantaged, African-American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, and English language learners. Findings from this study revealed…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Social Development
Sussman, Ari – Teachers College Record, 2015
This chapter recounts the first 3 years of the Student Voice Collaborative (SVC) in New York City, a district supported student leadership initiative that engages high school aged youth in school reform work at school and district levels. Based on his experiences developing and running the SVC, the author identifies nine design and implementation…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, Student Attitudes
Download full textSeidel, Sam – Jobs For the Future, 2013
North Queens Community High School serves approximately 200 students, 16-20 years old, as they strive to reach their personal and academic goals. All students at North Queens have previously been enrolled in high school elsewhere and are over-age and undercredited. Small class sizes, student-centered support, and an accelerated credit acquisition…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Success, College Readiness, College Preparation
Krakowsky, Lorenzo – Bank Street College of Education, 2010
This paper tells the remarkable and compelling story of Leonard Covello, a ground breaking progressive educator who worked tirelessly to shape public education in New York City during the first half of the 20th century. Covello was the founding principal of Benjamin Franklin High School (BFHS) in East Harlem in the 1930s. The author invites…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Biographies, Principals, Urban Schools
