Recent Publications

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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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

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.
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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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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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New Century High School Initiative RFP

September 2003 - This request for proposal document describes the rationale, expected characteristics, and means of
creating and supporting the third round of the New Century High School initiative (2004).
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