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Tables of Contents for Restructuring High Schools for Equity and Excellence
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Anthony S. Bryk
Preface
xi
Part I. Context for the Study
1
32
Examing School Reform
3
12
What Is School Restructuring?
4
2
Grounding for Our Study
6
2
Embedding Restructuring in Organizational Theory
8
3
The Structure of Our Study
11
2
Overview of This Book
13
2
Who Goes Where? Characteristics of Students and Schools
15
18
Selection of Samples
15
1
Information About Students
16
3
Information About Schools
19
12
Summary of Sample Characteristics
31
2
Part II. A Focus on School Restructuring
33
46
Restructuring in the Middle Grades
35
21
Understanding Restructured Practices
36
4
Examining the Characteristics of Students and Schools
40
5
What Did the Eighth-grade Study Reveal?
45
9
Implications for Middle-Grade Schooling
54
2
Restructuring in the Early Years of High School
56
23
Reforming the American High School
57
1
Introducing the 10th-grade Study
57
9
The Effects of School Restructuring on Student Development
66
9
Implications for High School Restructuring
75
4
Part III. School Social Organization and Restructuring
79
66
The Organization of Teachers' Work Lives
81
21
Studying Teachers' Work Lives
82
4
Examining Collective Responsibility for Learning
86
5
The Effects of Professional Community on Student Learning
91
8
Changing the Social Organization of Schools
99
3
Cumulative Effects of Restructuring
102
24
Reviewing School Organization
103
2
Investigating the Relationship Between School Organization and Student Learning
105
10
The Effects of School Restructuring in the Presence of School Organization
115
4
A Focus on School Organization
119
4
Drawing Implications for Optimal High School Organization
123
3
A Focus on One Structural Feature: School Size
126
19
Considering School Size
127
3
Refocusing the Question of School Size
130
5
The Effects of School Size on Student Learning
135
6
Some Policy Recommendations
141
2
How Do We Change High School Size?
143
2
Part IV. Implications from the Study
145
18
The Larger Meaning of School Restructuring for American High Schools
147
16
What Is ``Restructuring'' Meant to Change About Schools?
147
1
How Is Choice Involved in Restructuring?
148
2
Why Might Students Learn More in Restructured Schools?
150
2
How Is School Organization Related to Restructuring?
152
4
Why Does School Size Make Such a Difference?
156
1
Why Are There So Few Restructured High Schools?
157
1
Could Restructuring Effects Be Even Stronger?
158
3
Why Are High School So Difficult to Change?
161
2
Notes
163
6
References
169
12
Appendix A. Details of Construction of All Variables
181
18
Appendix B. A Brief Description of Some Hierarchical Linear Models
199
3
Index
202
8
About the Authors
210