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Calls to Action - Overarching Strategies for High School Reform

Frameworks for High School Improvement | NCLB and High Schools | Comprehensive School Reform | Breaking Ranks | Charter Schools

Students As leaders in education reform across the nation call for change in America’s high schools, many have developed overarching frameworks to help guide the national conversation. The National High School Center offers links to some of the most influential reports that have been produced to build capacity to implement research-based practices and policies across schools, districts and states.

 

 



Breaking Ranks

Advancing High School Reform in the States: Policies and Programs
This report, published by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and underwritten and authored by KnowledgeWorks Foundation and Monica Martinez, offers the Breaking Ranks II recommendations to state-level agencies.

Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform (Executive Summary)
The executive summary of Breaking Ranks II, authored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), offers recommendations to administrators and teachers who wish to implement updated reform strategies originally outlined in the first edition of Breaking Ranks: Changing an American Institution.

 

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