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May 2007
Managing the Transition to High School in a Comprehensive Urban High School


Thomas J. Smith

Thomas A. Edison, a comprehensive high school serving a low-income, largely Hispanic population in Philadelphia, uses the Talent Development model’s Ninth-Grade Success Academy to help ease the transition for students into high school. This "snapshot," published by the National High School Center, explains how Edison’s Academy works.

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