Title: School Reform - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: School Reform
School Reform
Multicultural Education
Multicultural Education across Nations
Whole School Designs for Enhancing Student Achievement
Summary
The Economics of High School Dropouts
Systemic Solutions
Online Learning, Multimedia, and Emotions
Conclusion
School Management
Meta-Analyses of School Management in Different International Settings
Fostering Metacognitive Development
V Conclusions
The economics of high school dropouts
Conclusions
School to School Collaboration
Co-Teaching
Adult Basic Education: A Challenge for Vocational Based Learning
The Link Between Education and Work in the Original Swedish Model of Komvux
Social Inequality and Schooling
2.3 Egalitarian School Reforms

Content: Yet, it is extremely difficult to identify the resources, technical support, and incentives to transform or restructure existing schools in order to create those features. Despite the difficulties of designing and implementing systemic solutions, a number of whole-school reform models have been developed and shown to improve student achievement and high school graduation rates. A recent review of these programs identified a number of challenges that these programs have been able to successfully address (Herlihy and Quint, 2007 ):
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assisting students who enter high school with poor academic skills; •
improving instructional content and practice; •
creating a personalized and orderly learning environment; •
providing work-based learning opportunities and preparing students for the world beyond high school; •
stimulating change in overstressed high schools. Efforts to reform other institutions that serve at-risk youth have proved more difficult. One ambitious systemic reform effort was the New Futures Initiative, promoted and funded by the Annie E. Casey foundation beginning in 1988 ( White and Wehlage, 1995 ). New Futures was an attempt to build new collaborative structures among existing public and private institutions in five cities (Dayton, OH;