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Direct linkMezzacappa, Dale – Education Next, 2010
In 2003, leaders at the School District of Philadelphia, district CEO Paul Vallas and chairman of the School Reform Commission James Nevels, enlisted the help of the Microsoft Corporation in a bold effort: reshape the archaic 19th-century high school model to better prepare students, especially urban students, to live and work in the 21st century.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, School Restructuring, Educational Change
