Report
Implementation and Performance in New American Schools: Three Years Into Scale-Up
Jan 1, 2001
Four Years into Scale-Up
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This study sets forth the RAND statistical analyses determining both the areas of significant progress in the New American Schools scale-up of implementation of its whole-school reform designs, and various other areas in need of additional attention.
Preface
Figures
Tables
Summary
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
An Overview of New American Schools and Purpose of Current Report
Chapter Two
Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Implementation in New American Schools
Chapter Three
Longitudinal Sample of New American Schools
Chapter Four
Status of Implementation
Chapter Five
Factors Affecting Implementation.
Chapter Six
Evidence from the Exit Interviews with Schools That Discontinued Relationships with NAS Designs
Chapter Seven
Conclusions and Policy Implications
Appendix A
Core Components of the Designs
Appendix B
Defining the Longitudinal Sample of NAS Schools
Appendix C
Table of Standard Deviations for the Core Implementation Index and Its Components
References
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