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> Full report [PDF: 114 pages]

American Institutes for Research and SRI International. 2003. High Time for High School Reform: Early Findings from the Evaluation of the National School District and Network Grants Program. Washington, DC: AIR and SRI.
> Executive summary [PDF: 9 pages]

Annenberg Institute for School Reform. 2002. School Communities that Work for Results and Equity. Providence, RI: Brown University, Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
> Full report [PDF: 16 pages]

Bryan, L. L., and C. I. Joyce. 2007. Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth from Talent in the 21st Century Organization. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Burch, P., and J. Spillane. 2004. Leading from the Middle: Mid-Level District Staff and Instructional Improvement. Chicago: Cross-City Campaign for Urban School Reform.

Cawelti, G., and N. Protheroe. 2003. High Student Achievement: How Six School Districts Changed into High Performance Systems. Arlington, VA: Educational Research Services.

Corbett, H. D., and L. B. Wilson. 1992. “The Central Office Role in Instructional Improvement,” School Effectiveness and School Improvement 3, no. 1:45-68.
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Darling-Hammond, L., J. Ancess, and S. W. Ort. 2002. “Reinventing High School: Outcomes of the Coalition Campus Schools Project,” American Educational Research Journal 39, no. 3:639-673.

Elmore, R. F. 2000. Building a New Structure for School Leadership. Washington, DC: Albert Shanker Institute.
> Full report [42 pages]

Honig, M. I. Under review. “Beyond Technical Assistance: ‘External’ Organizations and the Dynamics of Urban District Central Office Leadership.”

Honig, M. I. In press. “No Small Thing: School District Central Office Bureaucracies and the Implementation of New Small Autonomous Schools Initiatives,” American Educational Research Journal.

Honig, M. I. 2006. “Street-Level Bureaucracy Revisited: Frontline District Central Office Administrators as Boundary Spanners in Education Policy Implementation,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 28, no. 4:357-383.
> Full report [PDF: 27 pages]

Honig, M. I. 2004. “District Central Office — Community Partnerships: From Contracts to Collaboration to Control.” In Educational Administration, Policy, and Reform: Research and Measurement, edited by W. Hoy & C. Miskel, pp. 59-90. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Massell, D., and M. Goertz. 1999. District Strategies for Building Capacity and the Influence of State Policy on Local Initiatives. Philadelphia: Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

Murphy, J., and P. Hallinger. 1988. “Characteristics of Instructionally Effective Districts,” Journal of Educational Research 81, no. 3:175-81.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 2007. Program for International Student Assessment, 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow’s World. Executive Summary. Paris: OECD.

Raywid, M. A. 2002. “The Policy Environments of Small Schools and Schools-Within-Schools,” Educational Leadership 59, no. 5:47-51.
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Raywid, M. A., G. Schmerler, S. E. Phillips, and G. A. Smith. 2003. Not So Easy Going: The Policy Environments of Small Urban Schools and Schools- Within-Schools. Charleston, SC: ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools.

Shannon, G. S., and P. Bylsma. 2004. Characteristics of Improved School Districts: Themes from Research. Olympia, WA: Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Snipes, J., F. Doolittle, and C. Herlihy. 2002. Foundations for Success: Case Studies of How Urban School Systems Improve Student Achievement. Washington, DC: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation and Council of the Great City Schools.
> Executive summary

Sporte, S., M. Correa, J. Kahne, and J. Q. Easton. 2003. Chicago High School Redesign Initiative: A Snapshot of the First Year of Implementation. Chicago: Consortium for Chicago School Reform.
> Full report [PDF: 27 pages]

Springboard Schools. 2006. Minding the Gap: New Roles for School Districts in the Age of Accountability. San Francisco, CA: Springboard Schools.
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Togneri, W., and S. Anderson. 2003. Beyond Islands of Excellence: What Districts Can Do to Improve Instruction and Achievement in All Schools. Washington, DC: Learning First Alliance.
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Tyack, D. 1974. The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Ucelli, M., E. Foley, and J. Mishook. 2007. “Smart Districts as the Entry Points to Smart Education Systems.” In City Schools: How Districts and Communities Can Create Smart Education Systems, edited by R. Rothman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
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Wallach, C. A., and C. Gallucci. 2004. Elevating the Conversation: Building Professional Community in Small High Schools. Seattle, WA: Small Schools Project.
> Full report [PDF: 33 pages]

Wallach, C. A., and R. Lear. 2003. An Early Report on Comprehensive High School Conversions. Seattle, WA: Small Schools Project.