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The 1960s saw accelerated school and business growth throughout the city.

She attended accelerated schools and graduated from high school at age 14.

Accelerated Schools involves more of a change in attitude than in curriculum.

The entire school, its staff and parent association, must agree to accept Accelerated Schools before it can make the transition, he said.

Accelerated Schools take the opposite approach.

Dr. Levin trains associates and surrogates who then go into different cities to spread the gospel of Accelerated Schools.

In the midsummer of 1914, Zhang graduated from the accelerated school with excellent grades and went to work in Hainan.

Central Accelerated School (4th-5th grade)

What follows is a look at three species of schoolwide reform: Success for All, Accelerated Schools and Core Knowledge.

Through the Accelerated Schools Project, of which Mr. Levin is director, his ideas are now being used in 40 schools nationwide.

He said that Accelerated Schools is a way of transferring power - in curriculums, lesson plans, types of teaching - from central district administrations to individual schools.

The Accelerated School in South Central Los Angeles, an acclaimed public charter school, introduced yoga classes for all students last year.

In the two years since Accelerated Schools was brought to John Muir, test scores have risen and teachers have noticed a marked decline in student failures.

Core Knowledge stands apart both from skill-oriented systems like Success for All and student-centered models like Accelerated Schools, with their skepticism about content.

But the state also encourages those schools to choose among a half dozen restructuring programs - including Success for All, Accelerated Schools and the Efficacy Institute.

The Accelerated Schools model essentially offers a method for channeling the energies of reform and is now in more than 1,000 elementary and middle schools in 41 states.

Accelerated Schools is not intended to produce the same academic program at every school in which it operates, and so one might expect that it would perform indifferently in research.

Also known as the AR lists, the Accelerated Reader Lists are composed of lists of books for accelerated school readers.

John Muir, named for the famous naturalist, is part of the Accelerated Schools program started in 1986 by Henry Levin, a professor of education at Stanford University.

"In education, anyone can make any claim they want," said Henry Levin, a Stanford University economist, who founded that university's Accelerated Schools program, which works with troubled students in 700 schools in 37 states.

A new Standard tertiary benefit was introduced for university students., while at the secondary school level, staffing ratios were improved, an accelerated school building programme was carried out, and the number of guidance counsellors was markedly increased.

After the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China in Nanjing in 1912, Zhang was recommended to the Humen, Guangdong Army accelerated school by the revolutionary government.

Henry Levin, an economist at Stanford University whose own Accelerated Schools model has been adopted by hundreds of urban schools, wonders whether it is really necessary to abandon the conventional public school in order to introduce performance incentives.

In April 2011, EE representatives met with Department of Education's Accelerated School Infrastructure Delivery Initiative (ASIDI) unit, which presented its plans for tackling mud schools and infrastructure backlogs.

Columbus Park had adopted the Accelerated Schools model, whose central feature is an "inquiry process" in which teachers and administrators, along with parents and the community, take stock of the school, assess its strengths and weaknesses and plan collectively for reform.