How High Schools Become Exemplary

As many of you may have noticed, education is in the news a lot lately. I thought I would share a few articles I found about improving high schools.


This is an interesting article from The New York Times on a high school that integrated reading and writing across the curriculum and found success on standardized tests. What I find interesting is that this school was successful, but apparently not overnight; the article indicates that the program was initiated, and real, measurable success was observed ten years later.

Harvard University's Achievement Gap Initiative produced this report titled "How High Schools Become Exemplary." This report is almost 200 pages, so I am sure many of you will not want to read the entire report, but you may want to skim over the subheadings and look at some of the suggestions.