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School improvement and intervention strategy:

Michigan Department of Education School Improvement website

The National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform. collects, analyzes and disseminates information on comprehensive school reform. The Step-by-Step tool can be used by a principal or teachers.

Comprehensive School Reform: Research-Based Strategies to Achieve High Standards provides a coherent framework for planning schoolwide improvements. It is intended to help educators begin to redesign schools.

An Educators' Guide to Schoolwide Reform examines the claims for 24 schoolwide approaches. The American Institutes for Research (AIR), an independent, internationally recognized research organization was asked to rate their effectiveness in raising student achievement and to describe the approaches along a number of dimensions.

The Catalog of School Reform Models contains descriptions of 68 models, including 34 entire-school reform models and 34 skill- and content-based models (reading, math, science, and other areas). Criteria for selecting models included evidence of effectiveness in improving student academic achievement, extent of replication, implementation assistance provided to schools, and comprehensiveness. The Catalog was updated in 2000.

Launching the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program in Six Midwest States: Implications for Schools, Districts, and Model Providers Implementing the Program NCREL Evaluation and Policy Information Center April 1999, Lawrence B. Friedman

Meta analysis of Comprehensive School Reform models

Successful school reform models:  Clover Park, Washington  

District Leaders Guide to Reallocating Resources for district- and building-level support of comprehensive school reform pays particular attention to making resource reallocation decisions based on site-based planning and strict district-wide attention to maintaining a focus on higher achievement for all students.

School Reforms that Work: Successful Strategies for Educating At-Risk Youth  comes out of a discussion sponsored by the California Education Policy Seminar and The California State University Institute for Education Reform.

  Evaluation of new programs, led by Paul Peterson, in New York, Chicago, Dayton, Washington, DC

Enhancing Instructional Leadership: Lessons from the California School Leadership Academy

School Wide Reform Models: What Works,  by Olatokunbo S. Fashola and Robert E. Slavin, Phi Delta Kappa Articles On-Line

States and Districts and Comprehensive School Reform, CPRE Policy Briefs No. RB-24 May 1998

If the Shoe Fits: A Guide for Charter Schools Considering Adoption of a Comprehensive School Design, Charter Friends National Network, by Bryan and Emily Hassel

Making Matches that Make Sense (Opportunities and Strategies for Linking Charter Schools and Comprehensive School Design Organizations), Charter Friends National Network May 1998, by Bryan and Emily Hassel

Districts Building Teacher Capacity in Classroom Assessment: Lessons Learned about the District Role in Building Teachers' Capacity To Assess Students More Effectively through an Interconnected System of Programs and Policies

Raising the Standard describes a process in which citizens and educators at the grassroots level assume responsibility for themselves.

Making Good Choices: A Guide for Schools and Districts published by helps schools devise approaches for comprehensive school reform and select the right partners.

Guide to Working with Model Providers.  This guide, commissioned by the US Department of Education, provides assistance for schools, districts, and the providers of comprehensive school reform models on forging productive partnerships. 

Strategies for Scale: Lessons from Two Educational Innovations.   examines the spread of two educational innovations   Success for All and Accelerated Schools. Since replicating educational innovations has historically proven so difficult, the report probes for explanations of these programs  rapid spread.

 Tools for Schools:  School Reform Models Supported by the National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students includes information on 27 models.

Hope for Urban Education:  A Study of Nine High-Performing, High-Poverty, Urban Elementary Schools. The Urban Education website at Columbia University, in their special topics unit, has a section on School Reform

The Rand Corporation has evaluated several school reform programs, specifically of the New American Schools (NAS).

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