Capitalizing on Microsociety: Making the Most of Whole School Reform, Year Two Report 2001 Matthew Pearson, Elizabeth Blair, Jolley Bruce Christman

MicroSociety, Inc. (MSI), founded in 1991, has developed a unique and ambitious approach to the learning and development of elementary and middle grades students. It aims to nurture higher order th...

Students, Teachers and High Standards Reforms: Negotiating Education Policy, Classroom Practice and Student Outcomes in Philadelphia Middle Schools 2000 Jolley Bruce Christman, Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Ellen Foley, Rosalie Rolon-Dow

In this analytic essay, we argue for research on school reform that positions students at the center of policy and propose directions for future investigation. To date, research on high standards ...

Case Studies of a Systemic Reform in Urban Schools 2000 Susan Watson, Rhonda Mordecai-Phillips, Claire Passantino, Jolley Bruce Christman, Nancy Lawrence, Theresa Luhm, Hitomi Yoshida

These case studies look at the implementation of the Children Achieving Challenge reform in three Philadelphia elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools. They illustrate contras...

The Science Learning Network: An Experiment in Technology, Museum-School Partnerships and Educational Reform Mar 1998 Suzanne Blanc, Jolley Bruce Christman, Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Tabatha Abu El-Haj

This report is an evaluation of the performance of the Science Learning Network (SLN) during the first three years of its existence, from 1995 to 1997. SLN was a collaboration of six science museum...

Children Achieving: Guidance for School Improvement in a Decentralizing System: How Much, What Kind, and From Where? Feb 1998 Jolley Bruce Christman, Ellen Foley, Claire Passantino

Examines the process of decentralization during the 1996-97 school year across the Philadelphia School District as part of the Children Achieving Challenge. Principal research questions include: 1)...

Critical Literacy and School Reform: So Much to Do in So Little Time 1998 Jody Cohen, Jolley Bruce Christman, Eva Gold

Student voices have largely been absent from the development of school reform efforts. This essay argues for the inclusion of these voices, noting that youths often have important insights into eff...

Growing Smaller: Three Tasks in Restructuring Urban High Schools Mar 1997 Jolley Bruce Christman, Jody Cohen, Pat MacPherson

In this article from Urban Education, the authors offer a framework, derived from five years of research in Philadelphia high schools, to illuminate the vision and labor necessary to make urban hig...

Reforming Alone: Barriers to Organizational Learning in Urban School Change Initiatives 1997 Elizabeth Useem, Jolley Bruce Christman, Eva Gold, Elaine Simon

A review and synthesis of findings from evaluations of nine separate professional development initiatives implemented in urban schools. This article identifies school and district policies and stru...

Girls in the Middle: Working to Succeed in School Sep 1996 Jody Cohen, Suzanne Blanc, Jolley Bruce Christman, Diane C. Brown, Michelle Sims

Middle schools are in a position to empower girls through educational reforms that directly address issues of gender equity. This study, commissioned by the American Association of University Women...

Taking Stock/Making Change: Stories of Collaboration in Local School Reform Jun 1996 Frederick Erickson, Jolley Bruce Christman

This is a review of three years of collaborative work on embedding systemic assessment and reflection into reform efforts through the Taking Stock/Making Change initiative. TS/MC was a partnership ...

The Five School Study: Restructuring Philadelphia's Comprehensive High Schools - Executive Summary Jun 1996 Jolley Bruce Christman, Pat MacPherson

This is the executive summary to the report.

The Five School Study: Restructuring Philadelphia's Comprehensive High Schools May 1996 Jolley Bruce Christman, Pat MacPherson

A study of restructuring efforts implemented in Philadelphia's comprehensive high schools from 1988 to 1995 as part of the Philadelphia Schools Collaborative funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Th...

Taking Stock/Making Change: Communication is Key at the Guion Bluford Elementary School 1996 Nancy Berhardt, Gretchen Brosius, Jolley Bruce Christman, William Gaberina, Denise Godwin, Carol Shiffrin, Everline Smith, Linda Staple, Barnhardt N

Taking Stock/Making Change is a series of reports generated during a collaborative action research project in which self-study teams from five Philadelphia schools sought to connect self-assessment...

An Evaluation of the Science Resource Leaders Program Sep 1995 Alisa Belzer, Jolley Bruce Christman, Elaine Simon

An evaluation of the Science Resource Leaders Program, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and administered jointly by the School District of Philadelphia and PATHS/PRISM. SRL sough...

Doing Eve's Work: Women Principals Write About Their Practice Jun 1995 Jolley Bruce Christman

This article was written by an educational ethnographer and five middle-school principals who met regularly to discuss journal entries about their professional practice. In the article, each princi...

'I'm No Longer Afraid to Say I Don't Know:' Becoming Scientists/Becoming Leaders Sep 1994 Suzanne Blanc, Jolley Bruce Christman

An evaluation of the Teachers Leadership Collaborative, a project of the Franklin Institute. Describes how urban teachers undertake an inquiry, hands-on to science instruction and position themsel...

Learning in the Afternoon: When Teacher Inquiry Meets School Reform 1994 Susan L. Lytle, Jolley Bruce Christman, Jody Cohen, Joan Countryman, Bob Fecho, Dina Portnoy, Fran Sion

This article, published in Chartering Urban School Reform (Michelle Fine, ed., Teachers' College Press, 1994) describes the Seminar in Teaching and Learning, a researching community of approximatel...

The Real Multicultural Curriculum: What Happens When Students Contest Community and Curriculum 1994 Jolley Bruce Christman, Jody Cohen, Pat MacPherson

This paper, presented at the 1994 Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, considers how the process of creating a student-driven, multicultural curriculum can help address issues of di...

Supporting Teen Parents and Their Children: Second Year Evaluation Report of Philadelphia Parents as Teachers Dec 1993 Eva Gold, Jolley Bruce Christman

A second-year evaluation of Philadelphia Parents as Teachers (PPAT), a support and education program for adolescent parents at two Philadelphia high schools. This report builds on a previous evalua...

Parent Education in an Urban Neighborhood: An Evaluation of the McKinley Family Center for Child Development Sep 1993 Eva Gold, Maria Mulero, Jolley Bruce Christman

The McKinley Family Center for Child Development, located in a poor multicultural urban neighborhood, is one of several programs in the Philadelphia School District designed to help parents be thei...