@article{ref1,
title="Reinventing high school: outcomes of the coalition campus schools project",
journal="American educational research journal",
year="2002",
author="Darling-Hammond, Linda and Ancess, Jacqueline and Ort, Susanna Wichterle",
volume="39",
number="3",
pages="639-673",
abstract="Long-standing critiques of large &quot;factory model&quot; high schools and growing evidence for the benefits of small schools, especially for the achievement of low-income and minority students, have stimulated initiatives in many cities to redesign secondary education. This seven-year study of the Coalition Campus Schools Project in New York City documented a unique &quot;birthing&quot; process for new, small schools that were created as part of a network of reform-oriented schools in a context of systemwide reform. The study found that five new schools that were created to replace a failing comprehensive high school produced, as a group, substantially better attendance, lower incident rates, better performance on reading and writing assessments, higher graduation rates, and higher college-going rates than the previous school, despite serving a more educationally disadvantaged population of students. The schools shared a number of design features, detailed in this study, that appeared to contribute to these outcomes. The study also describes successful system-level efforts to leverage these innovations and continuing policy dilemmas influencing the long-term fate of reforms.<p />",
language="",
issn="0002-8312",
doi="10.3102/00028312039003639",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/00028312039003639"
}