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Going to Scale with New School Designs: Reinventing High School

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Going to Scale with New School Designs: Reinventing High School
Abstract/Description
Since it was first invented, Americans have been trying to re-design the American high school. One of the latest approaches -- funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- is to find inventive high school designs that work well in one location and replicate them in other locations. The authors of this book followed a design team from Big Picture Learning as it worked to do exactly this, recording the challenges it faced, and the strategies it employed. Their accessible and entertaining account of Big Picture's work is laced with stories about "scaling up" by other school design teams, and in other enterprises beyond high school. Based on careful research, the book is both a practical guide to a new dimension of school reform, and also an interesting read for anyone interested in school change.
Author/creator
McDonald, Joseph P.
Klein, Emily J.
Riordan, Meg
Date
2009
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
IRE Approach/Concept
Scale Up
Featured case/project
Big Picture Learning
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
ISBN
978-0-8077-4987-6
Grant funding
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Citation
McDonald, J. P., Klein, E. J., & Riordan, M. (2009). Going to Scale with New School Designs: Reinventing High School. Teachers College Press.
Cited in
The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement
Item sets
Oxford Bibliography: The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement

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