Resources
 
 
   
 
  Ancess, J. (2003). Beating the Odd: High Schools as Communities of Commitment.
New York: Teachers College Press.
  Clinchy,-Evans, ed. (2000). Creating New Schools: How Small Schools Are Changing
American Education.
New York: Teachers College Press
  Fine, Michelle, ed.; Somerville, Janis I., ed. (1998). Small Schools, Big Imaginations:
A Creative Look at Urban Public Schools. Cross City Campaign for Urban
School Reform.
Chicago, IL. (www.crosscity.org/pubs/index.htm)
  Meier, D. (1995). The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for American from a Small
School in Harlem.
Boston: Beacon Press.
  Newmann, F.,.& Associates (1996). Authentic Achievement: Restructuring Schools for
Intellectual Quality.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
  Raywid, M. A. (1997 ). Small Schools: A Reform That Works. Chicago, IL: Small
Schools Consortium
   
 
  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website, education and high school section.
www.gatesfoundation.org/Education/TransformingHighSchools
  Making the case for small schools.
www.gatesfoundation.org/NR/Downloads/ed/smallschools/TheFactsMCFSS.pdf
  Three out of every 10 high school students do not graduate. The solution? Dynamic
learning environments designed to prepare all students for success.
www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/downloads/ed/edwhitepaper.pdf
  Profiles in Leadership: Innovative Approaches to Transforming the American High
School is a collection of essays written by some of America's foremost education
innovators, including Virginia Governor Mark Warner, Former U.S. Secretary of
Education Richard Riley, and Melinda French Gates. It presents valuable perspectives
from a range of influential educators, foundation executives, and public officials.
www.all4ed.org/publications/ProfilesInLeadership/Gates.pdf
  Redesigning Schools: What Matters and What Works (10 Features of Good Small
Schools). Stanford: School Redesign Network, Stanford University.
www.schoolredesign.net
  Steinberg, A., & Allen, L. (2003). From Large to Small: Strategies for Personalizing
the High School. Boston: Jobs for the Future. www.jff.org/jff/kc/library/0156
  Darling-Hammond, L., Ancess, J., & Ort, S. (2002). Reinventing high school: An
evaluation of the Coalition Campus Schools Program.
American Educational
Research Journal, 39 (3): 639-673.
  Wasley, P., Hampel, R. & Clark, R. (1997) "The Puzzle of Whole School Change."
Phi Delta Kappan (May), pp. 78, 9 (May 1997).