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Chart[er]ing Urban School Reform: Philadelphia Style. Draft.
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Fine, Michelle – 1992
This essay describes charter school development and the 3-year Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Schools Collaborative, which worked with educators and parents to transform comprehensive high schools, increase student outcomes, and establish teacher engagement and parental involvement. Charter schools (intellectual and emotional communities of adults,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
A Parent Involvement.
Fine, Michelle – Equity and Choice, 1993
Parents are being invited to step in to help improve public education, but they enter with neither resources nor power. Real parental involvement requires commitment to organizing parents and restructuring schools, as well as inventing rich versions of diverse educational democracies of difference. Schools must function like meaningful…
Descriptors: Democracy, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Chartering Urban School Reform. Reflections on Public High Schools in the Midst of Change.
Fine, Michelle, Ed. – 1994
This book presents essays written by school reformers that discuss the reform movement and examine the partnership that inspired the creation of small, intimate school communities known as charters. They also reflect on the comprehensive changes that inform each charter and the personal and collective struggles to institutionalize these new…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Discipline Problems, Educational Change, Essays
Small Schools, Big Imaginations: A Creative Look at Urban Public Schools.
Fine, Michelle, Ed.; Somerville, Janis I., Ed. – 1998
School reform leaders from Chicago (Illinois), Denver (Colorado), New York (New York), Seattle (Washington), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and Los Angeles (California) created the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to work to improve urban education so that all urban youth are well-prepared for postsecondary education, work, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Costs, Educational Change
Restructuring Philadelphia's Neighborhood High Schools: A Conversation with Constance Clayton and Michelle Fine.
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Schwartz, Robert – Journal of Negro Education, 1994
This interview with Constance Clayton, superintendent of the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) public schools, and Michelle Fine, professor of psychology and consultant, discusses the Philadelphia Schools Collaborative, a nonprofit organization established to lead the restructuring of the city's high schools. Central to the effort is the concept of…
Descriptors: Black Students, Consultants, Cooperation, Educational Change
A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools. The Teaching for Social Justice Series.
Ayers, William, Ed.; Klonsky, Michael, Ed.; Lyon, Gabrielle H., Ed. – 2000
Written by major players in the small schools movement, this collection of essays points to the ways that school restructuring strategies connect to the ongoing pursuit of social justice. Activists, scholars, practitioners, and theorists review how and why small schools work for students, provide thick descriptions of the small schools strategy in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy
School Choice: Examining the Evidence.
Rasell, Edith, Ed.; Rothstein, Richard, Ed. – 1993
This book presents a summary of school-choice issues, and is organized around a 1992 seminar entitled "Choice: What Role in American Education?" Each part presents a set of conference papers, followed by discussants' remarks and excerpts from audience discussion. The introduction summarizes the papers' positions and conclusions. Participants…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Vouchers