The goal of Educational Design is to actively pursue any and all reform avenues for the betterment of public schools with an emphasis on secondary models. Therefore we will continually update this portion of our site for those who wish to discover ideas and concepts that are helpful. We encourage others to please inform us of any successful models or studies of which they are aware and submit any viable material for this purpose.
General Reform:
Alexandar, K. Entwisle, D. (2001). The dropout process in life course perspective: Early risk factors at home and school. Teachers College Record, 103, 760-822.
American Youth Policy Forum (August, 2000). High Schools of the Millennium [on line] Available: http://www.aypf.org/publicatons/HSchools_round_3.pdf
Bhanpuri, H. & Reynolds, G. (2003). Understanding and addressing the issue of the high school dropout age [on line] Available: http://www.ncrel.org/policy/pubs/html/second/index.html
Croninger, R, & Lee, V. (2001). Social capital and dropping out of high school: Benefits to at-risk students of teacher' support and guidance. Teachers College Record, 103, 548-581.
Gallego, M, Hollingsworth, S. & Whitenack, D. (2001). Relational knowing in the reform of educational cultures. Teachers College Record, 103, 240-266.
Lippman, P. (2002) Practice theory, pedagogy and the design of learning environments; Understanding activity settings in relationship to the design of learning environments. CAE Net The Quarterly Newsletter of the Committee on Architecture for Education PIA, Vols 2 & 3, July & October, 2002. Available: [on line http://www.aia.org/pia/gateway/CAE_Net/Vol_2/vol_2_justathought.asp & http://www.aia.org/cae/pdf/Just-a-Thought.pdf ]
Mizelle, N. & Irvin, J. (2001). Transition from middle into high school [on line], National Middle School Association - research article. Available: http://www.nmsa.org/research/res_articles_may2000.htm
Nair, Prakash (2003). 30 strategies for educational reform [on line], Designshare.com Available (for viewing and purchase): http://FieldingNair.com/30strategies.pdf
Winerip, Michael. (2003). Going for depth instead of prep [on line], New York Times Available: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/education/11EDUC.html
Small vs. Large Comprehensive Schools:
Center for Collaborative Education (2002) New England small schools network: planning manual [on line] Available: http://www.nessn.org/nessn_planning_manual.pdf
Cotton, Kathleen (1996). School size, school climate and student performance [on line] NW Regional Educational Laboratory Available: http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/10/c020.html
Cotton, Kathleen (2001). New small learning communities: Findings from recent literature [on line] NW Regional Educational Laboratory Available: http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/nslc.pdf
Duke, Daniel & Trautvetter, Sara (2001). Reducing the negative effects of large schools [on line], National Clearinghouse of Educational Facilities Available: http://www.edfacilities.org/pubs/size.pdf
Wallach, M. & Lear, R. (2003). An early report on comprehensive high school conversions [on line] Small Schools Project Available: http://www.smallschoolsproject.org/PDFS/Wallach.pdf
Wasley, P., Fine, M., Gladden, M., Holland, N., King, S., Mosak, E. & Powell, L. (2000). Small schools: Great strides [on line] Bank Street Available: http://www.bankstreet.edu/gems/publications/smallschoollow.pdf
Project Based Learning:
Thomas, John W. (2000). A review of research on project-based learning [on line] Autodesk Foundation Available: http://www.k12reform.org/foundation/pbl/research/
Wolff, Susan (2002). Design features for project based learning [on line] Designshare.com Available: http://www.designshare.com/Research/Wolff/Project_Learning.htm
Tracking vs. Heterogeneous Grouping of Students:
Deakin, Michelle (2003) Course Correction, Boston Globe (6/8/03). Loveless, Tom (1998). The tracking and ability grouping debate [on line] Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Available: http://www.edexcellence.net/foundation/publication/publication.cfm?id=127
Oaks, J., Wells, A., Jones, M. &Datnow, A. (1997). Detracking: The social construction of ability, cultural politics, and resistance to reform. Teachers College Record, 98, 482-510.
Web Sites worth pursuing (these include both educational and physical facility reforms):
http://www.designshare.com/default.asp
http://www.essentialschools.org/
http://www.kwfdn.org/ProgramAreas/School/ohsti2.html
http://schoolstudio.engr.wisc.edu/index.html
http://www.smallschoolsproject.org/
Dr. Lang's E-mail: dalelang@vircom.net
Prof. Dowcett's E-mail: taoset@mac.com
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