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High School Size, Organization, and Content: What Matters for Student Success?

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June 20, 2007
Linda Darling-Hammond
Peter Ross
Michael Milken
Brookings Institute Press

Darling-Hammond, Ross, and Milken examine competing findings about the effects of smaller schools across a wide range of studies over the last thirty years. 

 

Social Emotional and Social Justice Learning in High Schools

Project Dates: 
February 2012 – March 2014
Contact: 
MarYam Hamedani
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This project examines how three urban, socioeconomically and racially diverse public high schools utilize a comprehensive focus on SEL to produce high achievement and engagement.

Student-Centered Schools: Closing the Opportunity Gap

Project Dates: 
January 2012-June 2014
Contact: 
Diane Friedlaender
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This study looks at four exemplary California schools to understand the practices, approaches, and contextual factors that contribute to successful student-centered learning.

Building a Learning Community: A Tale of Two Schools

Transforming Schooling and Teaching: Teacher Professional Development Series
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Building a Learning Community, A Tale of Two Schools: New report and case study on PLCs

June 14, 2012
Dan Mindich
Ann Lieberman

In the fourth part of SCOPE-Learning Forward's Status of Professional Development series, Dan Mindich and Ann Lieberman examine ways to implement effective PLCs.

Take a Giant Step: A Blueprint for Teaching Young Children in a Digital Age

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November 1, 2011
Brigid Barron, Gabrielle Cayton-Hodges, Laura Bofferding, Carol Copple, Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Levine
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and Stanford University

Take a Giant Step details a multi-sector action plan to enhance teacher education and a higher quality, 21st-century approach to the learning and healthy development of children in preschool and the primary grades.

 

Education Canada -- Theme Issue 2011

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EDUCATION CANADA

December 5, 2011
Canadian Education Association

This online magazine by CEA and SCOPE features Linda Darling-Hammond, Prudence Carter, Ben Levin, Carol Lee, Carol Campbell, and Penny Milton on what equity in education means--and what we can do to promote it.

 

Performance Counts: Assessment Systems that Support High-Quality Learning

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May 17, 2011
Linda Darling-Hammond
Council of Chief State School Officers

Darling-Hammond describes what a student assessment system could look like if built from current research principles and best practices found around the world.

 

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