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Corinne Herlihy
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State- and District-Level Support for Successful Transitions into High School
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2007. Corinne Herlihy.
This policy brief, published by the National High School Center, focuses on five key challenges that states, districts, and schools should address to support a successful transition into high school.
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Toward Ensuring a Successful Transition into High School
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2007. Corinne Herlihy.
This issue brief, published by the National High School Center, suggests that transitions into high school can be eased when both structural and specialized curricula reforms are in place.
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Emerging Evidence on Improving High School Student Achievement and Graduation Rates
The Effects of Four Popular Improvement Programs
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2006. Corinne M. Herlihy and Janet Quint.
This research brief, published by the National High School Center, draws on findings from four studies by MDRC that shed light on both the nature of the problems found in low-performing high schools and on the effectiveness of promising interventions that attempt to address those problems.
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Making Progress Toward Graduation
Evidence from the Talent Development High School Model
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2005. James J. Kemple, Corinne M. Herlihy, and Thomas J. Smith.
Talent Development, a high school reform initiative, produced substantial positive effects on attendance, academic course credits earned, tenth-grade promotion, and algebra pass rates for students in very low-performing schools in Philadelphia.
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The Talent Development Middle School Model
Context, Components, and Initial Impacts on Students’ Performance and Attendance
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2004. Corinne M. Herlihy and James J. Kemple.
During the first three years of implementation in six urban schools, The Talent Development Middle School model—an ongoing, whole-school reform initiative—had a positive impact on math achievement for eighth-graders but appeared to produce no systematic improvement in outcomes for seventh-graders.
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The Talent Development High School Model
Context, Components, and Initial Impacts on Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Performance
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2004. James J. Kemple and Corinne M. Herlihy.
An examination of the implementation and early impacts of Talent Development, a whole-school reform initiative, found that the model produced substantial gains in ninth-grade students’ course completion and promotion rates.
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Foundations for Success
Case Studies of How Urban School Systems Improve Student Achievement
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The Council of the Great City Schools.
2002. Jason Snipes, Fred Doolittle, Corinne Herlihy.
Some of the nation's fastest improving urban school systems are raising overall academic performance while reducing achievement gaps among students of different racial groups. But instead of taking a school-by-school approach, they are tackling education reform on a district wide basis.
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