High Schools That Work

High Schools That Work

Urban Students Achieve When High Schools Implement Proven Practices

by Gene Bottoms, Lingling Han and Alice Presson

A great challenge today is improving urban education and getting urban students ready for postsecondary education and careers. This research brief shows how, through comparisons of the 2002 and 2004 HSTW Assessments, deep implementation of the HSTW design in urban districts has raised student achievement levels.

Catalog Information: (06V61); 20 pages; 2006; $2; $1 each for 10 or more

Goal that it reflects: 4. All young adults have a high school diploma - or, if not, pass the GED tests.

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