High Schools That Work

High Schools That Work

Comprehensive School Reform: Making a Difference in Improving High Schools

by Gene Bottoms, Lingling Han and Alice Presson

States and school districts are discovering that a small investment can yield positive returns for schools that implement the HSTW Goals and Key Practices to produce more graduates who are ready for college and a career. Through HSTW technical assistance visits, school-based staff development, conferences, workshops, publications and NAEP-based assessments, teams of school and teacher leaders from low-performing schools learned how to make needed changes in improving student performance - and made more progress in raising student achievement than similar schools that failed to receive such assistance.

(07V09); 80 pages; 2007; $7.50; $5 each for 10 or more

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