School and district reform publications

This report sets forth preliminary evaluative work concerning the implementation and early outcomes of the IDS initiative. We describe the successes and challenges associated with implementing the IDS initiative.

The Renaissance 2010 initiative was established to increase the number of high-quality education options across Chicago. This report presents findings about Renaissance 2010 high schools drawn from a larger study…

For most of the past decade, the Chicago Public Schools have received significant support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the performance of city high schools.

The evaluation of the Texas High School Project (THSP) is being conducted by SRI International with the overarching goal of discerning the impact of THSP on student outcomes.

This article focuses on two contrasting strategies to small-school reform: starting new small high schools, and converting large schools into smaller learning communities.

In this article we begin to define possible agendas for research toward developing systematic frameworks and shared terminology for such a project.

This first-ever comprehensive study of the state of arts education in California has sought to fill the current information gap by taking stock of arts education policies and practices.

This study has sought to take stock of California's arts education policies and practices: understanding where schools’ arts programs are relative to state goals, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of…