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Download full textFine, 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
Peer reviewedSchwartz, 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
