Research Basis Supporting Key Practices of High Schools
That Work
Raising Expectations:
Covington, Martin V. 1992. Making the Grade: A Self-Worth Perspective
on Motivation and School Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Marshall, Hermine H., and Rhona S. Weinstein. 1984. Classroom Factors
Affecting Students: Self Evaluation: An Interaction Model. Review of
Educational Research 54 (3):301–325.
National Association of Secondary School Principals. 1996. Breaking
Ranks: Changing an American Institution. Reston, VA.
Quality Education for Minorities Project. 1990. Education That Works:
An Action Plan for the Education of Minorities. Cambridge, MA.
Rosenthal, Robert. 1987. Pygmalion Effects: Existence, Magnitude, and
Social Importance. Educational Researcher 16 (9):37–41.
Rosenthal, Robert, and Lenore Jacobson. 1968. Pygmalion in the
Classroom: Teacher Expectations and Pupils’ Intellectual Development.
New York: Rinehart and Winston.
Stevenson, Harold W. 1990. Making the Grade in Mathematics.
Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Upgraded Academic Core
Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. 1989. Turning Points:
Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century. Washington, DC:.
Gamoran, Adam, Andrew C. Porter, John Smithson, and Paula A. White. 1997.
Upgrading High School Mathematics Instruction: Improving Learning
Opportunities for Low-Achieving, Low-Income Youth. Educational Evaluation
and Policy Analysis 19 (4):325–338.
Hoffer, T.B, K.A. Rasinski, and W. Moore. 1995. Social Background
Differences in High School Mathematics and Science Course Taking and
Achievement. In U.S. Department of Education, National Center for
Education Statistics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
National Association of Secondary School Principal. 1996. Breaking Ranks:
Changing an American Institution. Reston, VA.
Oakes, Jeannie. 1990. Multiplying Inequalities: The Effects of Race,
Social Class, and Tracking on Opportunities to Learn Mathematics and Science.
Santa Monica, CA: The RAND Corporation.
Rock, D.A., and J.M. Pollack. 1995. The Relationship Between Gains in
Achievement in Mathematics and Selected Course Taking Behaviors. In U.S.
Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Visher, Mary, and Paula Hudis. 1999. Aiming High: Strategies to Promote
High Standards in Schools. In U.S. Department of Education.
Washington, DC: Office of Vocational and Adult Education.
Linking Learning to Student Lives
Newmann, Fred M., and Gary G. Wehlage. 1995. Successful School
Restructuring: A Report to the Public and Educators by the Center on
Organization and Restructuring of Schools. Madison, WI: Center on
Organization and Restructuring of Schools, University of Wisconsin.
Resnick, Lauren B. 1994. Situated Rationalism: Biological and Social
Preparation for Learning. In Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in
Cognition and Culture, edited by L. A. Hirschfield and S. A. Gelman.
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
Integrating Instruction
Dayton, C., M. Raby, D. Stern, and A. Weisberg. 1992. The California
Partnership Academies: Remembering the "Forgotten Half". Phi
Delta Kappan 3 (7):539.
Foothill Associates. 1997. California Partnership Academies 1995–96
Evaluation Report. Nevada City, CA.
Goodlad, John I. 1984. A Place Called School: Promise for the Future.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Grubb, W. Norton (ed.). 1995. Education Through Occupations in
American High Schools. Vol. 1 and 2. New York: Teachers College Press.
Hill, Paul T., Gail E. Foster, and Tamar Gendler. 1990. High Schools
With Character. Santa Monica, CA: RAND.
Hoachlander, Gary. 1999. Integrating Academic and Vocational Education—Why
is Theory So Hard to Practice? CenterPoint, September.
Manpower Development Research Corporation. 2000. Career Academies
Impacts on Students’ Engagement and Performance in High School. New
York, NY.
Work-Based Learning
Stone, J., D. Stern, C. Hopkins, and M. McMillon. 1990. Adolescents’
Perception of Their Work: School Supervised and Non-School-Supervised. Journal
of Vocational Education Research 15 (2):21–53.
Student Support Through Guidance and Extra Help
Levin, Henry M. 1988. Structuring Schools for Greater Effectiveness With
Educationally Disadvantaged or At-Risk Students. Paper read at annual
meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April, at New
Orleans, LA.
Louis, Karen Seashore, and Matthew B. Miles. 1990. Improving the Urban
High School: What Works and Why. New York: Teachers College Press.
Quality Education for Minorities Project. 1990. Education That Works:
An Action Plan for the Education of Minorities. Cambridge, MA.
Van Lehn, K., S. Siler, and W.B. Baggett. 1998. What Makes a Tutorial
Event Effective? In Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society, edited by M. A. Gernsbacher and S. Derry.
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Parent Involvement
Byrne, Gregory. 1995. Study Suggests There’s No Place Like Home for
Math and Science. Education Week:8.
Grissmer, David W. 1994. Student Achievement and the Changing American
Family. Santa Monica, CA: RAND.
Horn, L., and X. Chen. 1998. Toward Resiliency: At-Risk Students Who Make
it to College. In U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC:
Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
Keith, T., and P. Keith. 1993. Integrating Services for Children and
Families: Understanding the Past to Shape the Future. New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press.
Shartrand, A.M., H.B. Weiss, H.M. Kreider, and M.E. Lopez. 1997. New
Skills for New Schools: Preparing Teachers in Family Involvement.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project, Harvard Graduate School of
Education.
Using Data
Hoachlander, Gary, Karen Levesque, and David Mandel. 1998. Seize the
Data: Statistics Can Be a Powerful Tool for Those Who Use Them. Education
Week XVIII (Number 8).
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. 1996. The Balanced Scorecard:
Translating Strategy Into Action. Boston: Harvard University Press.
Research Basis for School Improvement
Structure
Guthrie, James W. 1986. School Based Management: The Next Needed
Education Reform. Phi Delta Kappan 68 (4):305–309.
Larsen, Terry J. 1987. Identification of Instructional Leadership
Behaviors and the Impact of Their Implementation on Academic Achievement.
Paper read at annual meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, April, at Washington, DC.
Leithwood, Kenneth, and Daniel L. Duke. 1993. Defining Effective
Leadership for Connecticut’s Future Schools. Journal of Personnel
Evaluation in Education 6 (4):301–333.
Méndez-Morse, Sylvia. 1992. Leadership Characteristics That Facilitate
School Change. Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.
Miles, Karen Hawley, and Linda Darling-Hammond. 1998. Rethinking the
Allocation of Teaching Resources: Some Lessons From High-Performing Schools.
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 20 (1):9–29.
Peterson, Kent. 1994. Building Collaborative Cultures: Seeking Ways to
Reshape Urban Schools. Washington, DC: North Central Regional Educational
Laboratories (NCREL).
Peterson, Kent, and Corinne Solsrud. 1996. Leadership in Restructuring
Schools: Six Themes on the Work Lives of Principals and Teachers. NASSP
Bulletin 80 (577):105–112.
Overall Research Review
Hoachlander. Gary, Martha Alt, and Renee Beltranena. 2000. Leading School
Improvement: What Research Says. Berkeley, CA: MPR Associates, Inc.
External Research Supporting Effectiveness
of
High Schools That Work
American Institute for Research. 1999. An Educators’ Guide to
Schoolwide Reform. Arlington, VA. Educational Research Service.
Frome, Pamela. 2000. High Schools That Work: Findings from the
1996 and 1998 Assessments. Raleigh, NC: Research Triangle Institute.
Jones, Christopher. 2000. Models for Regional Business—Education
Partnerships 1(8-11). New York: Dewitt Wallace Reader’s Digest Foundation.
Kaufman, Phil, Denise Bradby, and Peter Teitelbaum. 2000. High Schools
That Work and Whole School Reform: Academic Achievement of Vocational
Completers Through Reform of School Practices. Berkeley, CA: National Center
for Research in Vocational Education, University of California, Berkeley.
Olson, Lynn. 1999. Researchers Rate Whole-School Reform Models. Education
Week on the Web.
Visher, Mary G., David Emanuel, and Peter Teitelbaum. 1999. Key High
School Reform Strategies: An Overview of Research Findings. In U.S.
Department of Education. Washington, DC: Office of Vocational and Adult
Education.
Internal Research Supporting Effectiveness of High Schools That Work
The High Schools That Work assessment of students’ reading,
mathematics and science achievement demonstrates that schools implementing the
HSTW key practices can raise achievement and improve students’
preparation for work and further education. These Research Briefs are based on
findings and implications from HSTW assessment of 17,000 career-bound
students in 20 states
Bottoms, Gene. 1997. Research Brief #1 — The 1996 High Schools That
Work Assessment: Good New, Bad News and Hope. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene & Creech, Betty. 1997. Research Brief #2 — Reading
Performance of Career-Bound Students: Good News and Bad News from the 1996 High
Schools That Work Assessment. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene & Creech, Betty. 1997. Research Brief #3 —
Mathematics Performance of Career-Bound Students: Good News and Bad News,
from the 1996 High Schools That Work Assessment. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene &
Feagin, Caro H. 1997. Research Brief #4 — The 1996 High
Schools That Work Assessment: SCIENCE—Good News, Bad News and Actions.
Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene &
Presson, Alice. 1997. Research Brief #5 — The 1996 High
Schools That Work Assessment: Good News and Bad News for Health
Occupations Programs. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene. 1997. Research Brief #6 — The 1996 High Schools That
Work Assessment for Family and Consumer Sciences: Good News and Bad
News. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene &
Presson, Alice. 1997. Research Brief #7 — Work-Based
Learning:Good News, Bad News and Hope. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene. 1997. Research Brief #8 — Keeping the Future Alive for
Youth in High School Vocational Studies. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene, Creech, Betty & Johnson, Mary. 1997. Research Brief #9
— Academic and Vocational Teachers Working Together Contribute to Higher
Levels of Student Achievement. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene & Thayer, Yvonne. 1997. Research Brief #11 — The 1996
High Schools That Work Assessment: Good News and Bad news for Business
and Marketing Programs. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene & Mikos, Pat. 1995). Seven Most-Improved High Schools
That Work Sites raise Achievement in Reading, Mathematics and Science.
Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene. 1995. Reading: A Report on Improving Career-Bound Students’
Learning. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene & Presson, Alice. 1995. Mathematics: A Report on
Improving Career-Bound Students’ Learning. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene &
Bearman, Amy. 2000. Research Brief: Improving Reading
and Writing Skills in Language Arts Courses and Across the Curriculum.
Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene & Forget, Mark. 2000. Research Brief: Academic and
Vocational Teachers Can Improve the Reading Achievement of Male Career-Bound
Students. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene &
Feagin, Tom. 2000. Research Brief: The 1998 High
Schools That Work Assessment: Appalachian Regional Commission
(ARC) Sites Are Improving. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene. 2000. Research Brief — Putting Lessons Learned to Work:
Improving the Achievement of Vocational Students. Atlanta: SREB.
Bottoms, Gene; Fox, Joanna & New Thomas. 2000. Research Brief — The
2000 High Schools That Work Assessment: Improving Urban High Schools.
Atlanta: SREB.
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