From Large School Buildings to Small School Campuses: Orchestrating the Shift

Institution	New Visions for Public Schools
Titel	From Large School Buildings to Small School Campuses: Orchestrating the Shift
Quelle	(2005), (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; High Schools; Public Schools; Federal Legislation; School Effectiveness; Low Achievement; Educational Strategies; School Restructuring; Campuses; Small Schools; School Buildings; Neighborhoods; Individualized Instruction; Educational Facilities Improvement; Interior Space; Space Utilization; Science Laboratories; Color; Classification; Educational Change; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; High school; Oberschule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Bundesrecht; Schuleffizienz; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Lehrstrategie; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; School building; Schulgebäude; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Individualisierender Unterricht; Innenraum; Raumnutzung; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Bildungsreform
Abstract	The New York City Department of Education, like other urban public school systems, is facing the task of reforming many large high schools that have had graduation rates under fifty percent for many years. With new federal sanctions for failing schools under the No Child Left Behind Act, many schools nation-wide that have been prominent institutions in their neighborhoods for decades are now slated to close. One promising strategy to reform secondary education is to create small schools with rigorous and personalized instruction for students in the place of large low-performing schools. With limited construction funding, New York City has turned to adaptive reuse of large high school structures to house a substantial majority of the new small secondary schools opened as part of this reform effort since 2002. The need to maintain the use of existing buildings meant that growing small schools and phasing-out large schools share the same buildings over a multi-year transition period. This book describes the Department of Education's dynamic approach to the nexus of academic reform and architectural adaptation, as buildings evolved to become campuses of small schools. As other school systems embark on large-scale high school reform strategies, the solutions New York found may assist them in this transition. This book describes the redesign of 21 campuses over the course of the past year. [This paper was written with Laura Kurgan.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10