Designing Innovative High Schools: Implementation of the Opportunity by Design Initiative After Two Years

RAND began conducting a five-year evaluation of the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Opportunity by Design (ObD) high school redesign initiative in June 2014. This interim report, which focuses on implementation, provides detailed examples of the ObD school models and rich descriptions of implementation facilitators and challenges. It also examines areas of similarities and differences across the ObD schools and districts after two years.