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Direct linkBrand, Betsy – American Youth Policy Forum, 2009
High school career academies are a time-tested model for improving academic outcomes and preparing students for both college and careers. Career academies (1) are smaller learning communities taught by a team of interdisciplinary teachers, (2) provide a rigorous academic curriculum based on a career theme that demonstrates how knowledge is used…
Descriptors: High Schools, National Standards, College Attendance, Career Academies
Egerton, John – Amer Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Coordination, Education Service Centers, Educational Administration, Educational Cooperation
Peer reviewedSpencer, John – Teachers College Record, 2012
This article is a case study of compensatory education as it was developed and implemented by an innovative urban school principal in the early 1960s. I argue that while the compensatory education movement was often marred by pejorative-sounding language and inegalitarian ideas, especially as it was shaped and expanded by policy makers and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Low Achievement, Charter Schools, Pilot Projects
Download full textBrady, Ronald C. – Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2003
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires states and school districts to act aggressively to turn around failing schools. NCLB lists 31 different interventions of varying degrees of severity that are available to state and local policymakers when faced with schools whose students fail to make sufficient academic progress and sets forth…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Intervention, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
