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Recent Publications


  • Transforming the High School Experience
    Transforming the High School Experience

    June 2010 - This report by MDRC, one of the nation’s most respected public policy research firms, provides overwhelming evidence that our New Century High School initiative has resulted in schools with higher attendance, credit accumulation and graduation rates.

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  • From Large School Buildings to Small School Campuses: Orchestrating the Shift
    From Large School Buildings to Small School Campuses: Orchestrating the Shift

    November 2005 - This book describes the redesign of 21 formerly large-school campuses over the course of the 2004–2005. Building on the shared thinking of educators and design professionals, New Visions and the New York City Department of Education worked to create physical spaces that support instructional strategies that meet the needs of students in the 21st century.

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  • Policy Studies Associates 2005–06 Evaluation Report
    Policy Studies Associates 2005–06 Evaluation Report

    October 2007 - Evaluation of New Century high schools in the fourth year; a profile of the initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools (2005–2006).

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  • Reframing Education: The Partnership Strategy and Public Schools
    Reframing Education: The Partnership Strategy and Public Schools

    January 2006 - Drawing from a study of the New Century High Schools Initiative, this volume contains two papers on the community partnership strategy of the small schools movement: Partnership & Innovation: New Century High Schools in New York and Practicing Partnership: Lever for Reform in Public Schools.

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  • Branded Environments: Defining the Restructured School Campus
    Branded Environments: Defining the Restructured School Campus

    September 2007 - This publication is an updated step-by-step description of the visual branding process for high school campus buildings that house a distinct group of small schools. DOWNLOAD »

  • March 2008 Evaluation of SAM II
    March 2008 Evaluation of SAM II

    March 2008 - This paper evaluates the Scaffolded Apprenticeship Model (SAM), a school improvement and leadership development program that supports a school inquiry team in closing student learning gaps and leading colleagues to do the same.

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  • Partnership and Innovation – J. Hirota
    Partnership and Innovation – J. Hirota

    June 2005 - Focused on the implementation of the New Century High Schools Initiative, this paper examines how school-level partnerships between the Department of Education and nonschool organizations are enacted, as partners work to create and lead new small schools.

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  • Participation by Design
    Participation by Design

    October 2004 - The publication is a step-by-step description of the visual branding process for high school campus buildings that house a distinct group of small schools.

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  • Policy Studies Associates 2002–03 Evaluation Report
    Policy Studies Associates 2002–03 Evaluation Report

    June 2005 - Evaluation of New Century high schools in the first year; a profile of the initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools (2005–2006).

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  • A Vision of Partnerships
    A Vision of Partnerships

    June 2005 - This document describes the vision of school-community partnerships at the heart of the New Century High Schools Initiative, a groundbreaking effort to create new, small, effective high schools throughout New York City.

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