Tuition Based Pre-Schools — fee-based preschool
programs at CPS schools.
High School Book Club — mayoral efforts to address
adolescent literacy by offering high school students the time,
choices, and support to become more accomplished readers.
Charter School Facilities — charter school operators'
efforts to deal with challenging physical facilities, shared space,
securing funding for continued growth, expansion, renovations,
and facility upgrades.
Evening High Schools — CPS high schools with alternative,
flexible schedules.
National Board Certification: A Chicago Initiative —
implementation of national standards and certification for Chicago
teachers.
Leadership Academy and Urban Network for Chicago —
principal training and certification alternative for Chicago public
schools.
Structured Curriculum — evaluates the level and
quality of structured curriculum implementation in CPS schools
and its impact on teacher creativity.
Teachers for Chicago — instructional and evaluative
resource to explain, evaluate, and select alternative certification
options for people changing careers into education field.
Transition Centers — alternative program for students
not prepared to make the transition to main stream high schools.
Service Learning — evaluation of efforts to require
high school students to complete forty hours of community service
before graduation.
School Technology — findings revealed the need for
uniform, city-wide teacher training to ensure computer usage is
integrated into school curricula and for school improvement plans
to include annual technology upgrades.
Summer Bridge — evaluates CPS efforts to deliver
summer school programs systemwide.
Board-School Communication — findings reveals redundancies
and communications breakdowns between CPS central office and its
schools.
Small Schools — evaluation of characteristics, impact,
and benefits of small schools and learning communities in Chicago
public schools.
Parents as Teachers First — CPS efforts to encourage
better parenting skills for low income families.
School Prototype Designs — use of prototype building
designs to build new CPS schools.
Learning Disabilities: A Private Partnership — discusses
the impact of outside contracted services on working with learning
disabled children.
Year-Round Schools — assessment of the impact of
year-round schools on teachers, students, and families.
Edge/Up: A school to Work Initiative — examines
the impact of a school-to-work program in a city community.
High School Technology — evaluates the status of
computer use in high schools.
Rush Neurobehavioral Center/Catholic School Partnership
— examines a collaboration to pilot a program for the identification
and instruction of students with learning disabilities.
Executive Function Skills
— evaluates a learning management system to help children
develop time management, organization, problem-solving, prioritizing,
goal-setting skills.
Climate
Analysis Surveys™
A Principal's Day
— assesses the complex and changing realities of over 80%
of CPS principals' time; explores the extent to which principals
are able to devote time and attention to the implementation of
the school vision, instructional leadership, and curriculum development.
Parent Involvement — evaluates parent involvement
in 93% of Chicago public schools.
Other
Projects
An Education Plan for Chicago Public Schools —
CPS.
Small Schools, Next Steps: Voices from the Field — Business and Professional
People for the Public Interest.
Student Mobility and Local School Improvement in Chicago —
Howard University Quarterly Review.
Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act: A First Look Inside
15 School Districts — Center on Education Policy. http://www.cep-dc.org
