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Jehl, Jeanne; Kirst, Michael W. – Education and Urban Society, 1993
Discusses ways schools must restructure to provide school-linked services. Education personnel must learn to work with other agencies and to expand the boundaries of their efforts. Practical implications of school-linked services are illustrated via reference to the New Beginnings program of the San Diego (California) city schools. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Children, Cooperative Planning
Kirst, Michael W. – 1998
This document examines various efforts to reform education by institutions of higher education, by states and local school systems, and by the federal government. It charges that many K-12 reform policies are moving secondary and postsecondary education in disparate directions. Problems identified include a lack of authentic measures for student…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Affirmative Action
Venezia, Andrea; Callan, Patrick M.; Finney, Joni E.; Kirst, Michael W.; Usdan, Michael D. – National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2005
This report, supported by case studies in Florida (ED508098), Georgia (ED508099), New York (ED508100), and Oregon (ED508101), identifies and examines policy options available to states that are interested in creating sustained K-16 reform. The findings move the K-16 agenda forward by proposing a set of state policy levers that can be used to…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Educational Change
Venezia, Andrea; Callan, Patrick M.; Kirst, Michael W.; Usdan, Michael D. – National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2006
This case study is part of a broader research project examining state policies and governance structures that span K-12 and postsecondary education. Georgia was the first state to have state and regional P-16 councils, and its regents' office in the University System of Georgia oversees a variety of projects that focus on connecting K-12 and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Educational Change