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REPORTS
NEW! Academic Interventions to Help Students Meet Rigorous Standards: State Policy Options
This report provides an analysis of interventions to support struggling students in achieving high standards, synthesizes current research findings, and presents an array of strategies
specific to state policymakers.
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A Call to Action: Transforming High School for All Youth
A Call to Action: Transforming High School for All Youth is a framework of six core principles and recommended strategies for preparing all of our nation's youth for college, careers, and active civic participation. A Call To Action provides leaders at the national, state, district, school, and community levels with a common framework for building public will, developing supportive policies, and actually implementing the practices needed to radically change the traditional, factory-model high school that tracks and sorts students.
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Crisis or Possibility: Conversations about the American High School
This report looks at how leaders are beginning to transform America's traditional, comprehensive high school in ways that make it responsive to the needs of all students. Based on proceedings from a series of conferences in the fall of 2003, the report identifies seven "key levers for change," and exposes the gaps and challenges that remain.
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All Over the Map: State Policies to Improve the High School
This report examines trends, policy assumptions and tensions that key state education statutes and board requirements hold for high schools. The state policies considered are divided into three categories: policies specific to high schools, such as compulsory schooling, Carnegie Units and curriculum, and General Education Development - GED policies that detail opportunities to learn, such as teacher certification, student retention/promotion, and alternative schools policies that are new and in rapid flux, such as standards and accountability, assessment and high school exit tests.
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ISSUE BRIEFS
Increasing Academic Rigor in High School: A Common Agenda for National Education Organizations
This issue brief provides a national context for the debate on academic rigor and offers suggestions for how national education organizations can help to define a shared vision and common agenda around rigor that is coordinated at the national, state, and local levels.
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Policy Brief: Federal Policy Positions of National High School Alliance Partners
This brief provides a summary of the common themes and differences in partner organizations’ positions on the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and a short summary of partners’ statements on other federal legislation.
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Defining Rigor in High School: Framework and Assessment Tool
This tool was prepared to provide a conceptual framework for understanding what is meant by rigor in the context of high school improvement efforts. It provides some common language for discussing rigor.
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INDICATORS PROTOCOLS
All National High School Alliance Indicators Protocols
This publication includes five site visit protocols developed by the National High School Alliance, including A Call to Action: Indicators Protocol, Active, Powerful and Knowledgeable Communities, Personalization and Social Supports, Professional Learning Communities, and Relevant and Connected Learning. These protocols are designed to be tools and guides to facilitate a school/program site visit.
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A Call to Action: Indicators Protocol
This protocol uses the six core principles of A Call to Action: Transforming High School for All Youth to examine school-wide and small learning community/themed program progress. This protocol was used at the May 2006 partners meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, and is based on the National Academy Foundation’s Academy and School Profile 2005.
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Relevant and Connected Learning: Site Visit and Discussion Guide
This protocol is designed to collect and organize observations and reflections around the academic engagement of all students through rigorous and relevant curricula. The protocol was developed for the April 2004 partners meeting in Oakland, California, and is based on the Jobs for the Future publication, Connected Learning Communities: A Toolkit for Reinventing High Schools (2001).
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Personalization and Social Supports: Site Visit and Discussion Guide
This protocol examines a school or program’s progress on personalization and social support, focusing on climate, organization, youth-adult relationships, curriculum and pedagogy, and community partnerships and connections. The protocol was developed for use at the December 2003 partners meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Professional Learning Communities: Site Visit and Discussion Guide
This protocol focuses on the role of professional learning communities in the development of practitioners for improved student outcomes. It also includes an overview of research on professional learning communities and an extensive bibliography. The protocol was developed for the 2003 partners meeting in Washington, DC.
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Active, Powerful, and Knowledgeable Communities: Site Visit and Discussion Guide
This protocol examines a school’s progress in on community engagement and the development of leadership in the community. The protocol, developed for use at the October 2002 partners meeting in Chicago, Illinois, is based on the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform publication, Strong Neighborhoods, Strong Schools: A Comprehensive Series of Reports on the Findings of the Indicators Project on Education Organizing (2002).
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Defining Rigor in High School: Framework and Assessment Tool
This tool was prepared to provide a conceptual framework for understanding what is meant by rigor in the context of high school improvement efforts. It provides some common language for discussing rigor.
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