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Briefs

10/27/2006
New Century High Schools Initiative with Bob Hughes, President, New Visions for Public Schools, Ronald Chaluisan, Vice President of Programs, New Visions for Public Schools, and Elizabeth Reisner, Principal, Policy Studies Associates (Forum brief)
4/14/2000
Small Schools and Learning Communities: The Wave of the Future? with Trish McNeil, Assistant Secretary of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education; Kathleen Cotton, Research Associate, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory; Mike Klonsky, Director, Small Schools Workshop, University of Illinois at Chicago; Marty Strange, Policy Director, Rural School and Community Trust; and Iris Metts, Superintendent, Prince George's County Public Schools, Maryland. (Forum Brief)
10/30/1998
Creating New Small Schools: Do They Work? Can We Afford Them? Can They Drive Systemic Change? with Ann Henderson, Center for Law and Education and representatives of New York City's small school reform movement. (Forum Brief)

Trip Reports

10/18/2007-
10/19/2007
State Policy Trip to Miami, Florida, October 18-19, 2007: Career Pathways and K-12 Education. Highlights from this trip include meeting with Rudy Crew, Superintendent of Miami-Dade Country Public Schools, as well as other policy and education experts at the state and local levels. In addition, we visited Miami Edison Senior High School, MacArthur South Senior High School, and Robert Morgan Educational Center. (Trip Report)
1/8/2004 -
1/9/2004
High School Reform in New York City to visit Morris High School and South Bronx High School to learn about the transformation of large high schools to small high schools, LaGuardia Community College's middle college high school programs, and to meet with the Core Group Governing Team of the New York City school reform effort. (Trip Report)
12/2/2003 -
12/3/2003
High School Reform in Cleveland, Ohio, This visit was organized to allow participants to learn about the efforts of a large urban school district that is engaged in converting its comprehensive high schools into small learning communities, creating new small schools, and to learn about other programs that support student achievement and entry into postsecondary education or work. (Trip Report)
5/21/2003 -
5/24/2003
High School Reform in San Diego, CA, with visits to High Tech High School, Mission Bay High School, Garfield Alternative High School, and Southwest High School, and meetings with officials from the San Diego City Schools, Patrick Ainsworth, Director, High School Leadership Division, CA State Department of Education, and Doris Alvarez, Principal, Preuss Charter School. (Trip Report)