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The America's Choice®
School Design |
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American Association of School Administrators
"An
Educators' Guide to Schoolwide Reform" |
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Southern Regional Education Board (SREB):
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Johns Hopkins University, Center for Social Organization of
Schools
The Talent Development High
School Model |
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Core Knowledge
(Hirsch) |
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Modern Red Schoolhouse (
Kilgore, Adamowski ) |
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Coalition of
Essential Schools (Sizer, Meier, [ Hampel ]) |
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KIPP Academies (the
Knowledge Is Power Program) |
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Edison Schools
(Chris Whittle) |
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Success for All |
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K12 – Curriculum & Cyberschool
(William Bennett) |
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The Gardner School
(Vancouver, WA) |
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Marva
Collins Preparatory School of Wisconsin |
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Whitney High School
(the "school of dreams" in Humes' book) |
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The Ross School |
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Tower Hill School |
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McNeil, Linda M. Contradictions of
School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing, Critical
Social Thought;. New York: Routledge, 2000. McNeil describes distinctive
curricula in well-performing Houston magnet schools, and how these have been
affected by the Texas reforms that became the model for NCLB. McNeil
begins Chapter 1 ( fat PDF - 1.2 M)
(skinny PDF - 156K): "Standardization reduces
the quality and quantity of what is taught and learned in schools. This
immediate negative effect of standardization is the overwhelming finding of
a study of schools where the imposition of standardized controls reduced the
scope and quality of course content, diminished the role of teachers, and
distanced students from active learning." |
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Perelman, Lewis J. School's Out: A
Radical New Formula for the Revitalization of America's Educational System.
1st ed. New York: Avon, 1993.
Excerpts from School's Out
by Lewis Perelman, abridged & edited for EDUC 897 |