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  New Annenberg Institute Study: Beating the Odds The Annenberg Institute has just published the results of a study of 13 New York City schools that are successfully preparing low-performing ninth-graders for timely graduation and admission to college. Principal Associate Carol Ascher and Research Associate Cindy Maguire, coauthors of the study, Beating the Odds: How Low-Performing Ninth-Graders are Making it to College, describe four key strategies these schools use to help their students “beat the odds”: academic rigor, networks of support, high expectations, and effective use of data. While urban school districts around the country struggle to raise often abysmally low high school graduation rates, some high schools succeed beyond expectations in bringing students with low academic skills and high needs to graduation in four years, followed by enrollment in college. This report describes a qualitative study, conducted in 2006 by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, of a small group of New York City high schools that were “beating the odds” by producing higher than predicted graduation and college-going rates for ninth-graders who entered with far below-average eighth-grade reading and math scores. Institute staff identified four key strategies that helped these students beat the odds: academic rigor, networks of timely supports, college expectations and access, and effective use of data. The report concludes with recommendations for maintaining and scaling up the success of these schools through better distribution of resources, greater school control over enrollment, a stronger system of support and accountability, and a district office of postsecondary education. For more information on this study, click on the URL link below. To download a free PDF version of the study, click on Beating the Odds: How Low-Performing Ninth-Graders are Making it to College. URL: http://www.annenberginstitute.org/Products/BTO.php |
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