Rethinking High School: Five Profiles of Innovative Models for Student Success
Presenters
Tracy Huebner (Primary)
Senior Research Associate
WestEd
Description
With college seen as a minimum requirement for a growing number of living-wage jobs, the economic future is not looking bright for the large number of U.S. students who aren’t even graduating from high school. Some are wondering whether shrinking the size of America’s high schools can help, not just to keep more students in school, but, equally important, to prepare greater numbers for college. At the request of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has committed $800 million to fund 2,000 small schools nationwide, WestEd took a look at five such schools. What is happening at these select schools? Who are they educating? How are the students doing? In this interactive presentation, one of the study’s authors, Tracy Huebner, Senior Research Associate at WestEd, will present the preliminary findings from the report, along with recommendations for further study.
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