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Improving Student Achievement in High Schools

BEATING THE ODDS: How thirteen NYC Schools Bring Low-Performing Ninth-Graders to Timely Graduation and College Enrollment

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> Putting Kids on the Pathway to College:
   How Is Your School Doing? [A College Pathways Rubric]

A report on a qualitative study of thirteen NYC high schools that are successfully preparing low-performing ninth-graders for timely high school graduation and enrollment in college. The study identified four key strategies used by these schools and offers recommendations for systemic support to maintain and scale up their success. (2007)

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BUILDING A SYSTEM OF EXCELLENT HIGH SCHOOLS

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This tool provides a framework and guidelines for district leaders, community stakeholders, educators, administrators, parents, and students to map out the process of transforming their high schools to meet the needs of all students. Originally, it was designed by the Academy for Educational Development and the Annenberg Institute to assist the seven school districts involved in Carnegie Corporation's Schools for a New Society (SNS) initiative, a national initiative designed to reinvent urban high schools.

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A Framework for Success for All Students: Conceptual Framework for SNS

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> Schools for a New Society project

A Framework for Success for All Students outlines the core concepts of the Schools for a New Society initiative, including portfolios of schools, youth and community engagement, and the role of partners. (2006)

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High School Redesign: Voices in Urban Education 8

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> VUE 8 online
   [Includes articles, excerpts, resources, author bios]

High schools are now the "hot topic" in education reform. Dozens of school districts are hard at work creating new high schools and breaking up existing ones. But figuring out what should replace the old high school model is not as simple as the rhetoric might suggest. This issue of Voices in Urban Education looks at the latest thinking on what it will take to create systems of excellent high schools that work for all students. Articles by Robert Rothman, Constancia Warren and Mindy Hernandez, Francine Joselowsky, Rosanna Castro, John DeVore, Alethea Frazier Raynor, S. Paul Reville. (Summer 2005)

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Putting Kids on the Pathway to College: How Is Your School Doing? A College Pathways Rubric

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> Beating the Odds Report

A tool for assessing a high school’s practices in relation to strategies that researchers have identified in schools that are bringing low-performing ninth-graders to timely graduation and college acceptance. Based on the findings in the Annenberg Institute study Beating the Odds. (2008)




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