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"Lee and Smith do a masterful job of analyzing restructured schools in the NELS data."
–Elizabeth G. Cohen, Professor Emerita, Education & Sociology, Stanford University"At last! After nearly two decades of talk about restructuring, Lee and Smith provide sophisticated analyses of the impact of moving away from traditional bureaucratic forms of schooling. This book should both cheer and challenge those who've counted on restructuring to bring good schools to all American students."
–Jeannie Oakes, Professor & Director, UCLA's Institute for Democracy Education & Access (IDEA)
Do students who attend restructured high schools learn more? Is learning in these schools equal for students of different social groups?
This distinctive volume is the first to explore these questions using data from a large (over 800 private and public schools) national survey. Demonstrating empirical links to achievement, this book investigates how restructuring relates to such organizational and structural properties of schools as their size, the curriculum, instruction, their teachers’ attitudes toward students, and how they press their students to work hard and succeed. Going beyond any existing work on this topic, Restructuring High Schools for Equity and Excellence demystifies the statistical analyses to draw implications and make recommendations for school reform and school policy.
