Access to Success in the Urban High School: The Middle College Movement

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Teachers College Press, 2001 - 206 pàgines
This fascinating history of one school innovation recounts the painstaking labours of those willing to help at-risk youth succeed in our complex society. Harold Wechsler examines the middle college movement by focusing on a quarter-century of growth at the first Middle College. Started in 1974 at LaGuardia Community College in New York, this successful alternative school has since been widely replicated and adapted throughout the country. Anyone interested in the processes of educational reform will find this captivating story and Wechsler s in-depth policy analysis to be essential reading.
 

Continguts

Precedents and Influences
1
The Rationales for Reorganization
4
The 1114 Idea In Practice
12
Resurrecting the Vision
16
Conclusion
18
Coming Together Open Admissions and Philanthropy
20
Access to Public Higher Education in New York City
21
LaGuardia Community College
23
Replications
94
The New York City Sites
95
The Ford Foundation and the Reform of Urban Education
98
Selecting the Inner Circle
105
Five Successes
108
Two Failures
132
Conclusion
135
The Sum of the Parts
139

The Designer and the Design
27
The Components
33
Wholl Run the School?
44
Approval
49
Conclusion
51
Living at the Border Design and Implementation
53
The First Years
54
Academic Reform
66
School Membership and Academic Engagement
77
Conclusion
89
Did It Work? Tales of the DataTape
140
Adept Adaptation?
142
Collaboration Leveraging and Normative Congruence
149
Facilitating Transition
158
Conclusion
165
Notes
169
References
173
Index
193
About the Author
Copyright

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