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Secondary School Redesign Resources

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Middle-to-High-School Transition
http://www.centerforcsri.org/files/TheCenter_NL_May09.pdf

High School Size, Structure, and Content: What Matters for Student Success?
www.brookings.edu/gs/brown/bpepconference/DarlingHammond_Paper.pdf

NASSP Legislative Recommendations for High School Reform
www.principals.org/hsreform

Building 21st Century Skills
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/index.php?option=com_content&view= article&id=5&Itemid=2

Annenberg Institute for School Reform
www.annenberginstitute.org

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
www.gatesfoundation.org

Center for Collaborative Education
www.ccebos.org

Coalition of Essential Schools
www.essentialschools.org

ASCD's High School Reform Proposal
www.ascd.org/innovativehighschools

Comprehensive School Reform Program
www.ed.gov/programs/compreform/index.html

New Centuries High Schools Initiative
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/reports/dropout/new_century/

NW Regional Laboratory’s Recreating Secondary Schools
www.eplc.org/clearinghouse_highschool.html

International Center for Leadership in Education: Resources for High School Success
www.daggett.com/hsresources.html

IBM Reinventing Education Change Toolkit
www.reinventingeducation.org/RE3Web/

Intervention:  Accelerated Middle Schools
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/reports/dropout/ams/

Early Warning Systems That Support Students at Risk of Dropping Out of High School
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High Schools Use Response to Interventions to Meet Student Needs
www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/01/28/19rti_ep.h28.html?tmp=1551456088

Transforming High School Teaching and Learning: A District-wide Design
www.aspeninstitute.org

Measuring and Improving the Effectiveness of High School Teachers
www.all4ed.org/files/TeacherEffectiveness.pdf

Getting Ready, Willing and Able: Critical Steps Toward Successful Implementation of Small Learning Communities in Large High Schools
www.nwrel.org/scpd/sslc/issue_papers/issue_paper_1_getting_ready.pdf

Small Schools Project
www.smallschoolsproject.org

Career Academies
www.mdrc.org/publications/482/overview.html

Building a System of Excellent High Schools: A Framework and Tool for Discussion and Action
http://scs.aed.org/publications/43730AED.pdf

New England Secondary School Consortium
www.newenglandssc.org

Approaches to Dropout Prevention: Heeding Early Warning Signs with Appropriate Interventions
www.betterhighschools.org/docs/NHSC_ApproachestoDropoutPrevention.pdf

Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning
www.nacol.org/docs/KeepingPace07-color.pdf

The Not-So-Inevitable Failure of High School Conversions
www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/10/24/09fink.h27.html?tmp=1427354791

Graduation Matters: Improving Accountability for High School Graduation
www2.edtrust.org/NR/rdonlyres/5AEDABBC-79B7-47E5-9C66-7403BF76C3E2/0/GradMatters.pdf

Raising Rigor, Getting Results: Lessons Learned from AP Expansion
www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0908APREPORT.PDF

Career Forward:  Take the Challenge
http://nroc.careerforward.org/careerforward/

Parent Expectations and Planning for College
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008079.pdf

Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High Schools Can Dop
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practiceguides/higher_ed_pg_091509.pdf

The Linked Learning Approach: Building the Capacity of Teachers to Prepare Students for College and Careers
http://www.all4ed.org/files/LinkedLearningBuildingCapacity.pdf