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Arts and Design Rationale .pdf

Bill Graves, The Oregonian, September 17, 2003

David Hoff, Education Week, April 11, 2001

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

Percy Bates, Equity Coalition, Vol II, No. I, Winter 2003

Tony Wagner, Education Week, 21(14), 56, 2001

Michael Fullan, Center for Development and Learning, 2002

Julie Landsman, Educational Leadership, November 2004

Virginia Richardson, Phi Delta Kappan, 84(5), 401-406, January 2003

Steven Carter, The Oregonian, December 21, 2004

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

Chris Cunningham, ERIC Digest, No. 157, 1-6, 2002

Kathleen Cushman, Horace, 13(4), 1-8, March 1997

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

Valerie E. Lee and Julia B. Smith, Issues in Restructuring Schools, Fall 1994

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Tony Wagner, Phi Delta Kappan, 82(5), 378-383, January 2001

Shelby Oppel, The Oregonian, August 27, 2003

Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian, August 12, 2003

Ed Schmoker, Education Week, February 12, 2003

Mary Anne Raywid, Educational Leadership, December 1997/January 1998

Michael Klonsky, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Small Schools Workshop, 1998

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

Robert Cooper, Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk, 4(3), 259-275, 1999

Latino Parent Narratives of Struggle in a College Access Program
Susan Auerbach, The Teachers College Record, 104(7), 1369-1392, 2002

National Association of Secondary School Principals, The Education Alliance, Reston, VA, 2004

Thomas J. Sergiovanni and Thomas J. Segiovanni, Jossey-Bass, Indianapolis, IN, 1999

Linda Lambert, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 1998

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

by Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith Currency , New York, NY, 1994

Carol Ann Tomlinson, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 1999

Amy Benjamin, Eye on Education, Larchmont, NY, 2002

Ingrid Bens, Jossey-Bass, Indianapolis, IN, 2005

Ruby K. Payne, Aha Process, Highlands, TX, 2001

Thomas Toch, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 2003

Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 1997

Thomas G. Chenoweth and Robert B. Everhart, Eye on Education, Larchmont, NY, 2002

Eliot Levine, Eliot, Teachers College Press, Williston, VT, 2002

Lisa Delpit, New Press, New York, 1995

Kathleen Cotton, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 2003

Richard Dufour, Robert E. Eaker, NES, Bloomington, IN, 1998

Adria Steinberg, Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA

Mike Schmoker, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 1999

Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar, Steven Zemelman, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 2000

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

Maurianne Adams,Lee Anne Bell and Pat Griffin (eds.) Routledge, Oxford, UK, 1997

Margaret J. Wheatley, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 2002

Jeff Hitchcock, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, IA, 2001

Ruth Johnson, Corwin Press, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, 2002

Gary R. Howard, Teachers College Press, Williston, VT, 1999

Beverly Daniel Tatum, Basic Books, Philadelphia, PA, 2003

Donovan, Suzanne, J. Bransford, and J. Pellegrino, eds. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1999

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

Fred Newmann and Gary Wehlage, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, Madison, WI, 1995

Chugach School District, Anchorage, AK, 2002

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

in Small Schools, Big Imaginations
R. Gladden, Cross City Campaign for Urban Schools, Chicago, IL, 1998

in A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools
Nancy Mohr, Teachers College Press, New York, NY, 2000

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

Oregon State Board of Higher Education, Oregon University System, July 2003

Thinking K-16, The Education Trust, Washington, DC, Winter 2003

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

Anne Henderson, Bonnie Jacob, Adam Kernan-Schloss, Bev Raimondo, KSAPlus Communications, Arlington, VA, 2004

Chris Louth, Simon Hole, and Leah Rugen,
Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Providence, RI, 1995

Center for Collaborative Education, New England Small Schools, 2002

The American Diploma Project, Washington, D.C., 2004

Curriculum Mapping as Professional Development

Knowledge Works Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, 2002

National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 2004


Spring 2007 PDF document


Most recent analysis of the progress of small schools.

Mavis Sanders, Joyce Epstein and Lori Connors-Tadros, Center for Research on the Education of Students At Risk, Baltimore, MD, 1999

Oregon University System,Oregon Department of Education, Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development, March 2003

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

Oregon Department of Education

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

Center of Collaborative Education, New England Small Schools Network Boston, MA, 2001

Verna Lange, New York City Teaching Fellows, 2002

Mary Beth Lambert, Small Schools Project, Seattle, WA 2004

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

Anthony Carnevale and Donna M. Desrochers, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., 2002

National Association of States Boards of Education, Alexandria, VA, 2002

National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 2002

National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 2000

Thinking K-16, The Education Trust, Washington, DC, Spring 2001

Kathleen Cotton, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA, 2004

Oregon Business Council, Portland, OR, 2001

Small Schools Project, Seattle, WA

Tom Van Der Ark, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 2004

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)

Coalition of Essential Schools, Oakland, CA, 2001

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Austin, TX, 1997

Jay P. Greene, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 2003

Public Agenda, New York, NY, 2002

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

Linda Darling-Hammond, School Redesign Network, Stanford, CA, 2002

Darling-Hamond, Linda & Karen Miles, Consortium for Policy Research in Education Philadelphia, PA, 1997

Kathleen Cotton, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, OR, 1996

Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Small Schools, Oakland, CA, 2002


The First Three Years of the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative - June 2006 PDF

Rural School Community Trust, Arlington, VA, 2002

Joe Nathan and Karen Febey, Center for School Change, National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, and Humphrey Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 2001

Thinking K-16, The Education Trust, Washington, DC , Fall 1999

Michael Cohen, The Aspen Institute & Jobs for the Future, Washington, D.C., 2001

Mark Gordon Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools, Oakland, CA

National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 1998

Christopher Swanson, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 2004

Technology Inc.

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, OR

School Redesign Network. Stanford, CA

in The Learning Classroom: Theory into Practice
Stanford University School of Education, Stanford, CA