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Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform
Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models
2006. Janet Quint.
Dropout rates at American high schools remain stubbornly high, and too many high school students who do manage to graduate are not ready for college and work. Recent MDRC evaluations of three reform models — Career Academies, First Things First, and Talent Development — offer hope that comprehensive programs can improve low-performing high schools. This research synthesis for policymakers and practitioners offers practical lessons for creating personalized learning environments, helping struggling freshmen, improving instruction, preparing students for the world beyond high school, and sustaining change in overstressed high schools.
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All High School Reform Conference Series Publications
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Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform
Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models
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2006. Janet Quint.
Recent MDRC evaluations of three high school reform models — Career Academies, First Things First, and Talent Development — offer hope that comprehensive programs can improve low-performing high schools. This research synthesis for policymakers and practitioners offers practical lessons for creating personalized learning environments, helping struggling freshmen, improving instruction, preparing students for the world beyond high school, and stimulating change in overstressed high schools.
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Closing the Aspirations-Attainment Gap
Implications for High School Reform
A Commentary from Chicago
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2006. Melissa Roderick.
In this paper, prepared for MDRC’s 2005 high school reform conference, Melissa Roderick, Co-Director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research, contends that the primary goal of high school reform should be to close the gap between the high aspirations of minority and low-income public high school students — most of whom want to go to college — and the low numbers who graduate with the skills they need.
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High School Reform Conference Series
Using Rigorous Evidence to Improve Policy and Practice
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2004. MDRC.
How can evidence-based research help improve low-performing high schools? This report summarizes the first in a series of conferences designed to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to address that question.
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