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Invest in reclaiming troubled high schools

Baltimore Sun | March 14, 2007 News from the U.S. Department of Education that high school seniors in 2005 scored significantly lower in reading than their counterparts in 1992 has produced a fresh round of hand-wringing about the nation’s 14,900 public high schools. There’s a lot to worry about: by some calculations, barely more than […]

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Preventing Student Disengagement

This article considers the practical, conceptual, and empirical foundations of an early identification and intervention system for middle-grades schools to combat student disengagement and increase graduation rates in our nation’s cities. Many students in urban schools become disengaged at the start of the middle grades, which greatly reduces the odds that they will eventually graduate. […]

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Making High Expectations Real in All Our High Schools

Baltimore Examiner | January 18, 2007 There is little disagreement about what we want from our public high schools. We want them to graduate all their students prepared for success in college, careers, and civic life. In schools where this is happening, students are engaged, come to school everyday, and try hard to succeed. They […]

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The Graduation Rate Crisis We Know and What Can be Done About It

Education Week Commentary | July 12, 2006 The debate over how best to measure the nation’s Graduation Rate is important. We need to know who graduates and who does not. Yet in the midst of questions about measurement and data quality we must not lose sight of what lies plainly before us and is loudly […]