Volume 4

• Volume 4, Issue 1: 01/01/2008
  This issue of Success in High-Need Schools explores P-20 school-college-business collaboration, the essential process through which the Center fulfills its mission to recruit, prepare, and retain excellent teachers for Illinois' high-need schools. This issue of ACI's Center for Success in High-Need Schools online journal features a Center white paper on business-education partnerships -- their history, purposes, and best practices. The issue follows with case studies of P-20 collaboration in urban, rural, and suburban settings, the perspectives and goals of the partners, and what these collaborations have been able to achieve that the partners would be unable to accomplish alone. Guest columns provide perspectives of participants, including what is critical for partnerships to work in achieving their goals. The essential focus, of course, is on collaboration to improve teaching in high-need schools and student success in closing the achievement gap.

Volume 3

• Volume 3, Issue 1: 02/15/2007
  Improving teaching through research-based practice, commonly referred to as "action research," has applications both in the college preparation of pre-service teachers and in teacher professional development in the K-12 classroom. This issue of the ACI Center Journal for Success in High-Need Schools focuses on action research undertaken at Associated Colleges of Illinois member colleges and universities, notably summer 2006 collaborative projects of arts and sciences and teacher education faculty members. The articles in this issue of the Journal demonstrate the broad applications of action research and its promise both in preparing highly qualified teachers for high-need schools and, consequently, in helping to close the achievement gap regarding the performance of students in these schools.

Volume 2

• Volume 2, Issue 3: 12/15/2006
  Innovation is the focus of this issue of Success in High-Need Schools, (Volume 2, Number 3), the online journal of ACI's Center for Success in High-Need Schools. Feature articles and columns in this issue focus on creative methodologies and the results of Innovation Projects undertaken by ACI member colleges and universities to improve teacher preparation and to help close the achievement gap in schools serving our neediest children. The Center's Innovation Projects are funded by ACI's Teacher Quality Enhancement Partnership grant from the US Department of Education.
• Volume 2, Issue 2: 09/08/2006
  Volume 2, Issue 2, of the Journal for Success explores successful practices in addressing the critical need to recruit a larger, more diverse corps of highly qualified teachers for high-need schools and then to improve the dismal teacher retention rate. In many high-need schools, more than 50 percent of first-year teachers leave teaching or transfer to another school after their first year.
• Volume 2, Issue 1: 06/30/2006

  This second issue of Success in High-Need Schools is devoted to the theme "Alternative and Accelerated Certification." It features articles and commentary on non-traditional Illinois programs that recruit and prepare a diverse corps of highly qualified teachers for high-need schools.

Volume 1

• Volume 1, Issue 1: 12/01/2005
  This inaugural issue of Success in High-Need Schools reports findings from the Center's first year: stories of collaboration among ACI's 24 member colleges and universities, their K-12 school partners, and community colleges and businesses seeking to recruit, prepare and retain a diverse corps of excellent teachers for Illinois' high-need schools.