Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools. Executive Summary

Autor/inn/en	Shields, Regis Anne; Miles, Karen Hawley
Institution	Education Resource Strategies
Titel	Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools. Executive Summary
Quelle	(2008), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Small Schools; Urban Schools; High Schools; Case Studies; Resource Allocation; High Achievement; Educational Finance; Governance; Charter Schools; Enrollment; Student Characteristics; Language Arts; Reading Achievement; Mathematics Achievement; Attendance Patterns; Graduation Rate; Models; Educational Methods; Student Needs; College Preparation; Relevance (Education); Interpersonal Relationship; California; Illinois; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School; Schools; Schule; Urban area; Urban areas; Stadtregion; Stadt; High school; Oberschule; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ressourcenallokation; Bildungsfonds; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Einschulung; Sprachkultur; Leseleistung; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Analogiemodell; Educational method; Erziehungsmethode; Relevance; Relevanz; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Kalifornien; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Education Resource Strategies (ERS) works with school and district leaders to help them more strategically use resources--people, time, and money--to improve student performance. They have found that many school districts begin creating small high schools without a clear sense of how much they will spend or how to ensure that small schools organize in ways that will promote high performance. To begin to address these challenges, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supported ERS in a three-year effort aimed at building understanding and tools to support districts in creating cost-effective systems of high-performing urban high schools. This report summarizes ERS' four main findings from detailed case studies of nine small urban high schools. They have dubbed these nine schools "Leading Edge Schools" because they stand apart from other high schools across the country in designing new ways to "do school" while outperforming most high schools in their local districts. This report explores how the Leading Edge Schools organize their resources--people, time, and money--including how they take advantage of their smallness to improve student performance. The report also looks at how much each of these schools spends to achieve their organizational designs and how the local context--funding levels, administrative policies, and union contracts--affects resource decisions. Although these schools spend varying amounts per pupil and organize resources in unique ways, they share a set of practices that distinguishes them from typical large urban high schools. (Contains 2 figures.) [For the full report, see ED544382.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10