SRN LEADS/Stanford University: School Redesign Network — 
In the News
Creating Excellent and Equitable Schools
Educational Leadership
Linda Darling-Hammond and Diane Friedlaender
May 2008 | Volume 65 | Number 8 | Pages 14-21
The right design features and policies can promote exceptional high schools on a broad scale.
A business maxim holds that every organization is perfectly structured to achieve the results it achieves. We could say the same of schools. And when outcomes are particularly problematic—as is true for many large urban high schools that lose most of their students before graduation—attaining substantially different results in our schools will require more than just teachers "trying harder" within traditional bureaucratic constraints. Such a shift typically requires new organizational structures.
"June Jordan got me ready for a four-year college. … we had a lot of help, and people had our backs at June Jordan, but they also made sure that we were able to take care of ourselves when we needed to. … My life is just beginning, and it was a great thing to have June Jordan to start."
— A student at one of the high schools featured in High Schools for Equity
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