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Chikwe, Moses; Cooper, Robert – Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2020
This qualitative phenomenological study explored how 19 school leaders in seven California comprehensive high schools were making sense of data and using data to transform their schools by closing achievement gap for historically underrepresented students. Data is a powerful tool in the hands of school leaders to transform patterns of inequality…
Descriptors: School Administration, Social Justice, Equal Education, Data Use
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Cooper, Robert – Journal of Negro Education, 1996
Examines the response of a large racially mixed urban California school community to the tension between excellence and equity in public education and describes how 319 African American students experienced school reform, including detracking. Findings indicate the potential of detracking for real educational improvement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Cooper, Robert – 1997
The response of one urban school community to the tension between excellence and equity in public education was to change the structure, curriculum, and educational practices of its ninth-grade English and history courses fundamentally. This report brings together qualitative and quantitative data to document the efforts of a large urban high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Core Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth, English
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Cooper, Robert – Urban Education, 2000
Examines one community's efforts to fundamentally alter a high school's structure, curriculum, and instructional practices to provide greater educational opportunities for all students. The program used heterogeneous grouping in tandem with curricular and pedagogical changes. Student surveys indicated that the program was moderately successful in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Black Students, Classroom Environment