Are you using one of the National High School Center’s Early Warning System (EWS) tools or resources? Are you thinking about using one, but have questions about how they might work for you? If so, please join the National High School Center’s new online Community of Practice for practitioners implementing EWS.

The EWS community is designed to connect users working with the National High School Center’s Early Warning…

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Looking for new high school-related resources?  Here are some pieces that other organizations have recently released:*

The Economic Value of Opportunity Youth (Civic Enterprises, January 2012). This report presents a detailed picture of the size of “opportunity youth” in the U.S., their demographic makeup and activities, as well as the social and fiscal costs they present. Opportunity youth may have dropped out of high school or college and been unable…

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Last week, the U.S. Department of Education (ED)-sponsored School Turnaround Learning Community (STLC) launched a “Secondary Schools” group within their online community for district and state staff implementing Smaller Learning Communities (SLC), the High School Graduation Initiative (HSGI), and School Improvement Grant (SIG) projects.  According to the group’s homepage, “The chief purpose of this group is to disseminate information about effective or promising practices in high school reform, and…

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The U.S. Department of Education recently released a professional development resource through Doing What Works (DWW) and the National High School Center.  Research-Based Practices for Secondary Schools Professional Development Package contains materials needed to conduct six professional development sessions on implementing research-based practices in secondary schools for three topics: Adolescent Literacy, Dropout Prevention, and Helping Student Navigate the Path to College. Additionally, a supplemental module on the…

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Looking for new high school-related resources?  Here are some pieces that other organizations have recently released:*

 Sustained Positive Effects on Graduation Rates Produced by New York City’s Small Public High Schools of Choice (MDRC, January 2012) A new MDRC study finds that new, small, New York City public high schools that are open to students of all academic backgrounds have substantial impacts on rates of graduation with Regents diplomas for…

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On January 18, 2011, the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) hosted a national summit and invited panelists such as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, 2011 Georgia Teacher of the Year Pam Williams, Executive Director of the Data Quality Campaign Aimee Guider, and others, to discuss why education data matters, how education data is currently being used, and what actionable steps need to be taken to strengthen data use across…

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A growing national focus on college and career readiness (CCR) has emerged over the past decade. For example, in order for states to qualify for a No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Waiver, states must adopt “college and career ready standards” for English/language arts and mathematics, administer assessments that measure these standards, and report data on college-going and college-accumulation rates for all students in their states.[1] In addition, the…

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