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The Five School Study: Restructuring Philadelphia Comprehensive High Schools assessed the long-term, district-wide effort to restructure Philadelphia’s comprehensive high schools. It examined two strategies central to the overall reform effort: the creation of small learning communities inside high schools and the movement to shared decision making and school-based management with parents, students, administrators, teachers, and community members as active participants. This study identified three essential tasks – building community, reinventing curriculum, and generating knowledge about change – which small learning communities must take up in order to become intimate and rigorous learning communities. |
