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Converging Reform "Theories" in Urban Middle Schools: District-Guided Instructional Improvement in Small Schools of Choice
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Gallucci, Chrysan; Knapp, Michael S.; Markholt, Anneke; Ort, Suzanne – Teachers College Record, 2007
Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The purpose of the paper is to explore an instructive case in which two potentially opposed reform theories converge on schools, in order to understand how productively or unproductively the two theories coexist. We attempt to answer the following questions: Can these two reform theories coexist,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Research Design, Middle Schools, Community Schools
Standards-Based Reform and Small Schools of Choice: How Reform Theories Converge in Three Urban Middle Schools. A Research Report. Document R-03-2
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Gallucci, Chrysan; Knapp, Michael S.; Markholt, Anneke; Ort, Suzy – Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, 2003
The convergence of two apparently opposite theories of urban educational reform is analyzed as it occurs in three middle schools in a New York City school district. The first theory, emphasizing small schools of choice, promotes close relationships between students and adults in distinctive school programs. The second--centralized, standards-based…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Instructional Improvement, Educational Change