Raising Achievement and Improving Graduation Rates: How Nine High Schools That Work Sites Are Doing It

By Gene Bottoms and Karen Anthony

This research brief describes how nine high schools in the High Schools That Work (HSTW) network are succeeding in achieving raising achievement and improving graduation rates. Their success is built upon four key actions: raising standards and providing an opportunity for students to learn a rigorous and relevant curriculum; helping students set challenging goals, giving feedback on their status in achieving these goals and providing support for achieving them; using instructional strategies that actively engage students in learning challenging content; and involving teachers in continuous school improvement.

Keywords: raising achievement, improving graduation rates, key actions

(05V14); 12 pages; 2005; $2 each, $1 each for 10 or more

Goals that it reflects: Every school has higher student performance and meets state academic standards for all students each year.

This publication is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. To view, you will need to have the free Acrobat Reader installed. The latest reader is downloadable for free from Adobe.