High Schools That Work

High Schools That Work

Research Brief – The 2000 High Schools That Work Assessment: Improving Urban High Schools

by Gene Bottoms, Joanna Hornig Fox and Thomas New

More urban students met the HSTW performance goals for reading, mathematics and science in 2000 than in 1998. However, a major gap still exists between the achievement of students at urban high schools and at all HSTW sites. This research brief tells the progress that has been made in raising the achievement of urban students, the strategies that work in urban high schools, the challenges that urban schools face and the actions that states and districts can take to improve urban schools.

Keywords: urban high schools, urban students, research-based teaching methods, extra help, Bok Technical High School, ninth-grade transition, low-performing schools, Teach for America

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