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Arts and Design Rationale .pdf

1 in 4 Are College Ready, Study Says
Bill Graves, The Oregonian, September 17, 2003

A World-class Education Eludes Many in the U.S.
David Hoff, Education Week, April 11, 2001

Breaking Up Large High Schools: Five Common (and Understandable) Errors of Execution
Tom Gregory, ERIC Digest, December 2001

Building a Shared Vision: Structured Dialogue About Important Questions
Tony Wagner, New Schools, New Communities, 11(3), 19-26, Spring 1995

Building an Equitable School Culture
Percy Bates, Equity Coalition, Vol II, No. I, Winter 2003

The Case for New Village Schools
Tony Wagner, Education Week, 21(14), 56, 2001

The Change Leader
Michael Fullan, Center for Development and Learning, 2002

Confronting the Racism of Low Expectations
Julie Landsman, Educational Leadership, November 2004

The Dilemmas of Professional Development
Virginia Richardson, Phi Delta Kappan, 84(5), 401-406, January 2003

Diploma Requirements Criticized.
Steven Carter, The Oregonian, December 21, 2004

The Early College High School .pdf
E3, December 7, 2006

Engaging the Community to Support Student Achievement
Chris Cunningham, ERIC Digest, No. 157, 1-6, 2002

Essential Leadership in the School Change Process
Kathleen Cushman, Horace, 13(4), 1-8, March 1997

Grappling with Autonomy
Small Schools Project, The Learning Network, Vol. 2, No. 4

High School Restructuring and Student Achievement
Valerie E. Lee and Julia B. Smith, Issues in Restructuring Schools, Fall 1994

Leadership for Learning: An Action Theory of School Change
Tony Wagner, Phi Delta Kappan, 82(5), 378-383, January 2001

NW Teens Still Lead Nation on SAT
Shelby Oppel, The Oregonian, August 27, 2003

Oregon High School Fall Short
Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian, August 12, 2003

Planning for Failure?
Ed Schmoker, Education Week, February 12, 2003

Small Schools: A Reform that Works
Mary Anne Raywid, Educational Leadership, December 1997/January 1998

Small Schools: The Numbers Tell a Story
Michael Klonsky, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Small Schools Workshop, 1998

Somebody Knows My Name
Milbrey McLaughlin, Issues in Restructuring Schools, Fall 1994

Sorting Black Students for Success and Failure: The Inequality of Ability Grouping and Tracking
Eva Chunn, Urban League Review, 11(1-2), 93-106, 1987-88

Urban School Reform: Student Responses to Detracking in a Racially Mixed High School
Robert Cooper, Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk, 4(3), 259-275, 1999

Why Do They Give the Good Classes to Some and Not to Others?
Latino Parent Narratives of Struggle in a College Access Program
Susan Auerbach, The Teachers College Record, 104(7), 1369-1392, 2002

Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform
National Association of Secondary School Principals, The Education Alliance, Reston, VA, 2004

Building Community in Schools
Thomas J. Sergiovanni and Thomas J. Segiovanni, Jossey-Bass, Indianapolis, IN, 1999

Building Leadership Capacity in Schools
Linda Lambert, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 1998

Creating Community Anywhere
Carolyn R. Shaffer and Kristin Anundsen, Jeremy P. Tarcher Books, East Rutherford, NJ, 1993

The Fifth Discipline Field Book
by Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith Currency , New York, NY, 1994

The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners
Carol Ann Tomlinson, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 1999

Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers
Amy Benjamin, Eye on Education, Larchmont, NY, 2002

Facilitating Ease! Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers
Ingrid Bens, Jossey-Bass, Indianapolis, IN, 2005

Framework for Understanding Poverty
Ruby K. Payne, Aha Process, Highlands, TX, 2001

High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American Education
Thomas Toch, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 2003

Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12
Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 1997

Navigating Comprehensive School Change: A Guide for the Perplexed
Thomas G. Chenoweth and Robert B. Everhart, Eye on Education, Larchmont, NY, 2002

One Kid at a Time: Big Lessons from a Small School
Eliot Levine, Eliot, Teachers College Press, Williston, VT, 2002

Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Lisa Delpit, New Press, New York, 1995

Principals and Student Achievement: What the Research Says
Kathleen Cotton, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 2003

Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement
Richard Dufour, Robert E. Eaker, NES, Bloomington, IN, 1998

Real Learning, Real Work
Adria Steinberg, Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA

Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement
Mike Schmoker, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 1999

Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Teaching, Learning and Leadership
Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar, Steven Zemelman, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 2000

School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Joyce L. Epstein, Mavis G. Sanders, Beth S. Simon, Karen Clark Salinas, Natalie R. Jansorn, Frances L. Van Voorhis, Corwin Press, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, 2002

Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice
Maurianne Adams,Lee Anne Bell and Pat Griffin (eds.) Routledge, Oxford, UK, 1997

Turning to One Another
Margaret J. Wheatley, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 2002

Unraveling the White Cocoon
Jeff Hitchcock, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, IA, 2001

Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap
Ruth Johnson, Corwin Press, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, 2002

We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools
Gary R. Howard, Teachers College Press, Williston, VT, 1999

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Basic Books, Philadelphia, PA, 2003

Key Findings, in How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice.
Donovan, Suzanne, J. Bransford, and J. Pellegrino, eds. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1999

Making the Most of Small: Creating Effective Learning Environments,
in From Large to Small: Strategies for Personalizing the High School
Adria Steinberg and Lili Allen, Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA

Organizational Capacity: Schools as Professional Communities, in Successful School Restructuring
Fred Newmann and Gary Wehlage, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, Madison, WI, 1995

Re-energize School Vision, in A Guide to Reinventing School
Chugach School District, Anchorage, AK, 2002

The Role of Principals in a Professional Learning Community,
in Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement
Richard Dufour, Robert E. Eaker, NES, Bloomington, IN, 1998

The Small School Movement: A Review of the Literature,
in Small Schools, Big Imaginations
R. Gladden, Cross City Campaign for Urban Schools, Chicago, IL, 1998

Small Schools are Not Miniature Large Schools, Potential Pitfalls and Implications for Leadership,
in A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools
Nancy Mohr, Teachers College Press, New York, NY, 2000

Developing Capacity for Data-Driven High School Reform,
in Data-Driven High School Reform: The Breaking Ranks Model
Mary Anne Lachat, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2001

Aligning Public University Admission with K-12 Student Learning
Oregon State Board of Higher Education, Oregon University System, July 2003

A New Core Curriculum for All: Aiming High for Other People's Children.
Thinking K-16, The Education Trust, Washington, DC, Winter 2003

Autonomy,
in Legal Issues and Small High Schools: Strategies to Support Innovation, in Washington State
Small Schools Project, Seattle, WA

The Case for Parent Leadership
Anne Henderson, Bonnie Jacob, Adam Kernan-Schloss, Bev Raimondo, KSAPlus Communications, Arlington, VA, 2004

Choosing Collaboration: Teaching Partnerships That Changed Individuals and Their Practice
Chris Louth, Simon Hole, and Leah Rugen,
Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Providence, RI, 1995

Common Conversion Questions
Center for Collaborative Education, New England Small Schools, 2002

Creating a High School Diploma that Counts
The American Diploma Project, Washington, D.C., 2004

Curriculum Mapping as Professional Development

Dollars and Sense: The Cost Effectiveness of Small Schools
Knowledge Works Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, 2002

Dropout Rates in the United States: 2001
National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 2004

Expect Success: Making Education Work for Every Oakland Student
Spring 2007 PDF document

Evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations's High School Grants Initiative
Most recent analysis of the progress of small schools.

Family Partnerships with High Schools: The Parents' Perspective
Mavis Sanders, Joyce Epstein and Lori Connors-Tadros, Center for Research on the Education of Students At Risk, Baltimore, MD, 1999

The First year: Student Performance on 10th Grade Benchmark Standards and Subsequent Performance in the First Year of College (2001-02)
Oregon University System,Oregon Department of Education, Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development, March 2003

Formative and Summative Evaluation
The Center for Effective Teaching and Learning

Governance structure and teams, in Our Journey to Small Learning Communities
J. Barnes, Enumclaw High School, Enumclaw; WA, 2001-02

Graduate and Dropouts in Oregon High Schools: 2002-03
Oregon Department of Education

High Schools for the New Millennium: Imagine the Possibilities.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

How Boston Pilot Schools Use Freedom Over Budget, Staffing, and Scheduling to Meet Student Needs,
Center of Collaborative Education, New England Small Schools Network Boston, MA, 2001

Instructional Scaffolding
Verna Lange, New York City Teaching Fellows, 2002

Knowing and Being Known: Personalization as a Foundation for Student Learning
Mary Beth Lambert, Small Schools Project, Seattle, WA 2004

Making the Case for Small Schools Seattle
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

The Missing Middle: Aligning Education and the Knowledge Economy
Anthony Carnevale and Donna M. Desrochers, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., 2002

Most Likely to Succeed: Policymaking in Support of a Restructured High School.
National Association of States Boards of Education, Alexandria, VA, 2002

The Nation's Report Card: Reading 2002
National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 2002

The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2000
National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 2000

New Frontiers for A New Century: A National Overview.
Thinking K-16, The Education Trust, Washington, DC, Spring 2001

New Small Learning Communities: Finding from Recent Literature
Kathleen Cotton, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA, 2004

The Oregon Agenda Policy Playbook: Public Issues and Recommendations for 2001
Oregon Business Council, Portland, OR, 2001

Organizing and Designing Small Schools Though Conversions of Large Comprehensive Schools
Small Schools Project, Seattle, WA

Personalization: Making Every School A Small School
Tom Van Der Ark, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

Past and Projected Elementary and Secondary School Enrollments
National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 2004

Potential Pitfalls of Layering Small Onto Large, in From Large to Small: Strategies for Personalizing the High School
Adria Steinberg and Lili Allen, Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA

Preparing America's Future: Statistical Snapshot of Oregon
U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, (Not yet published)

Principles at Work
Coalition of Essential Schools, Oakland, CA, 2001

Professional Learning Communities: What Are They and Why Are They Important?
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Austin, TX, 1997

Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States
Jay P. Greene, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 2003

Reality Check, 2002.
Public Agenda, New York, NY, 2002

Redefining Assessment
Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Pearson, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ

Redesigning Schools: What Matters and What Works (10 Features of Good Small Schools)
Linda Darling-Hammond, School Redesign Network, Stanford, CA, 2002

Rethinking the Allocation of Teaching Resources: Some Lessons from High Performing Schools
Darling-Hamond, Linda & Karen Miles, Consortium for Policy Research in Education Philadelphia, PA, 1997

School Size, School Climate, and Student Performance
Kathleen Cotton, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, OR, 1996

Six Autonomies Critical for Small School Success.
Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Small Schools, Oakland, CA, 2002

Small High Schools on a Larger Scale:
The First Three Years of the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative - June 2006 PDF

Small Works: School Size, Poverty and Student Achievement
Rural School Community Trust, Arlington, VA, 2002

Smaller, Safer, Saner Successful Schools
Joe Nathan and Karen Febey, Center for School Change, National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, and Humphrey Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 2001

Ticket to Nowhere: The Gap Between Learning High School and Entering College and High Performance Jobs
Thinking K-16, The Education Trust, Washington, DC , Fall 1999

Transforming the American High School: New Directions for State and Local Policy.
Michael Cohen, The Aspen Institute & Jobs for the Future, Washington, D.C., 2001

Understanding Design Teams
Mark Gordon Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools, Oakland, CA

Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Schools: 1996-97
National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 1998

Who Graduates? Who Doesn't? A Statistical Portrait of Public High School Graduation, Class of 2001
Christopher Swanson, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 2004

Why Rubrics
Technology Inc.

Listening to Student Voices: Self-Study Toolkit
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, OR

Solving the Puzzle: Redesigning Large High Schools Together.
School Redesign Network. Stanford, CA

Pulling It All Together: Creating Classrooms and Schools that Support Learning,
in The Learning Classroom: Theory into Practice
Stanford University School of Education, Stanford, CA