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Relationships, Rigor, and Readiness: Strategies for Improving High Schools
Publication Date: October 2008
Publisher(s): MDRC (Organization)
Author(s): Janet Quint; Saskia Levy Thompson; Margaret Bald; Julia Bernstein
Funder(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; James Irvine Foundation
Funder(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; James Irvine Foundation
Topic: Education (Statistics, research, and research methods and financing)
Education (Education policy and planning)
Keywords: Educational Reform
Type: Report
Abstract:
This report offers lessons from the last in a series of three high school reform conferences sponsored by MDRC, the Council of the Great City Schools, and the National High School Alliance. This conference, which brought together leaders from 22 midsize urban school districts, provided a forum for practitioners to share research- and practice-based lessons about helping students transition successfully into high school, stay on track to graduation, and be prepared for moving into postsecondary education, training, or the workforce.