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Publications

  • View Publications by Category:
  • Culturally Responsive Practice (12),
  • English Learners (4),
  • Performance Assessment (10),
  • Personalized Learning (5),
  • Pilot Schools (12),
  • Research and Policy (21),
  • Turning Points Guides (11)

Publications

At CCE, publications—including articles, papers, guides, and research reports—are a key strategy to identifying gaps in opportunity, access, and outcomes for traditionally underserved student populations, and a valuable means of communicating new information and perspectives on how to improve public education. Below you will find a selection of our recent publications.

Report

Creating Schools That Work: Lessons for Reform from Successful Urban High Schools

November 2003

Historically, urban high schools have proven to be the most challenging educational institutions in which to affect lasting reform. Yet policymakers and practitioners in Massachusetts have had insufficient evidence to guide their decision making on the conditions that work to improve student achievement at this level. This report explores this critical issue and generates discussion around possible strategies for leveraging best practices used in Massachusetts urban high schools that are improving.

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Guide

At the Turning Point: The Young Adolescent Learner

2003

Category: Turning Points Guides

This guide details the fundamental characteristics of the young adolescent learner and explains how Turning Points schools work to meet the needs of these students.

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Guide

Creating Partnerships, Bridging Worlds: Family and Community Engagement

2003

Category: Turning Points Guides

This Turning Points guide offers researched based tools and strategies for helping schools, teachers, families, and communities partner to deepen student learning and engagement.

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Guide

Benchmarks to Becoming a Turning Points School

2002

Category: Turning Points Guides

This guide describes how schools can use the Turning Points benchmarks to access their implementation of the model, and includes detailed benchmarks for the six Turning Points practices.

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Report

How Boston Pilot Schools Use Freedom Over Budget, Staffing, and Scheduling to Meet Student Needs

October 2001

This report provides evidence and examples that effective implementation of autonomies in schools with clear visions for teaching and learning creates schools in which students have a better chance of succeeding.

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Guide

Guide to Data-based Inquiry and Decision Making

2001

Category: Turning Points Guides

This guide documents the Turning Points practice of data-based inquiry that helps teachers, administrators, and community members use data to address the challenges facing a school.

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Guide

Looking Collaboratively at Student and Teacher Work

2001

Category: Turning Points Guides

This Turning Point guide provides six protocols that will help a school community collaboratively analyze student and teacher work to improve instructional practice and the quality of teacher discourse.

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Quality Performance Assessment: A Guide for Schools and Districts

Quality Performance Assessment: A Guide for Schools and Districts, published by CCE in 2012, looks at the process of making performance assessments that are rigorous, valid, and reliable and, at the same time, relevant and engaging for students. The guide leads readers through the process by using tools, protocols, and case studies that showcase various entry points and experiences of the school.

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