Restructuring in the Eyes of Practitioners: An Analysis of 'Next Century' School Restructuring School Proposals.

Analyzes 106 randomly selected school restructuring proposals from 1,600 submitted to the RJR Nabisco Foundation's Next Century Schools Program. The majority of these proposals emphasized student/parent support and curriculum improvement. Most avoided breadth versus depth and substantive discussion/inquiry issues and left governance structures essentially intact. Planned reforms were surprisingly conventional. (Contains 93 references.) (MLH)