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Saving America's High Schools | Table of Contents

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1 Secondary School Reform
Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman

2 National Perspective: Lessons Learned from the Gates Foundation’s Investments
Becky Smerdon, Barbara Means, Karen Mitchell, Mengli Song, and Charles Storey

3 High School Reform in Baltimore City Public Schools: Rollout and Results
Becky Smerdon and Jennifer Cohen

4 The New Century High Schools in New York City
Eileen Foley and Elizabeth Reisner

5 Small High Schools on a Larger Scale: The First Four Years of the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative
Joseph E. Kahne, Susan E. Sporte, and Marisa de la Torre, with John Q. Easton

6 Good Things Come in Small Packages: Lessons Learned from the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative
Sarah Edith Jones, Monica Martinez, and Cindy Cai

7 How a Rich Policy Environment Spawned High School Reform in North Carolina
Geoff Coltrane, Todd Silberman, and Joseph Garcia

8 Conclusions: Implications for Future Reform Efforts, Research, and Policy
Becky Smerdon, Kathryn Borman, and Jane Hannaway

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Index

 

 

Saving America's High Schools, edited by Becky A. Smerdon and Kathryn M. Borman, is available from the Urban Institute Press (ISBN 978-0-87766-758-2, paperback, 244 pages, $26.50)

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