Download or read book High School Reform in Colorado written by Colorado Children's Campaign and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "comprehensive" high schools that now educate almost all young people in Colorado and elsewhere in the United States were designed in a different era for a different economy. American comprehensive high schools were intended to provide a basic education in reading, writing, and arithmetic, preparing most students for work and some for college. These high schools were the workhorses of the democracy and economy throughout much of the 20th century. In the global economy, however, this traditional design allows too many students to drop out or simply "get by" and enter adulthood without the skills needed to thrive. Over time, the expectations placed on high schools have increased and schools have improved. The people in high schools are working harder than ever before. But the improvement has not kept pace with the challenge. Today, Colorado's citizens, government and businesses expect much more from high schools. A growing body of research about Colorado high school students has shown: (1) Graduation rates are extremely low (70 percent); (2) Graduation rates among minority students are dismal (56 percent for blacks and 44 percent for Hispanics); (3) Students score poorly on state assessments; (4) There are huge gaps in achievement when students are compared by race and ethnicity; (5) Graduates, especially those from low-income families, are poorly prepared for higher education; and (6) Many of those who enter college do not complete their college education. Commission members developed four recommendations that are intended to raise student performance, close achievement gaps and ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared to succeed. The Commission recommends that schools and school systems: (1) Improve the teaching and learning process in high schools; (2) Improve student transition to and from high school; (3) Expand school choice and alternatives; and (4) Use existing and new resources and data more effectively. (Contains 4 figures and 45 endnotes.).
Download or read book High School Reform in Colorado written by Heather Clapp Padgette and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need to complete a successful high school education has never been more important for an individual's future success. But, across the nation, high schools are not living up to their promise. U.S. high school graduation rates have remained virtually the same for the last 30 years--about 30 percent of students fail to graduate from high school with a diploma--while the intellectual demands of college, work and life have increased dramatically. According to a recent report from the Manhattan Institute, Colorado graduates only about 70 percent of its students on time, ranking Colorado 29th among states. Even more disturbing, the state's graduation rate has declined by around 10 percentage points since the early 1990s--likely a result of Colorado's changing demographics. Among Colorado's minority students, graduation rates are much worse--while about 80 percent of white students graduated, only 61 percent of black students and 47 percent of Hispanics graduated. The dismal statistics regarding Colorado's high school performance are not the result of a lack of effort. A great deal of effort has been expended by state and federal policymakers and philanthropic entities to improve outcomes for high school students. (Contains 39 footnotes.).
Download or read book A Call For High School Reform written by Gary D. Lichtenstein and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Is Our School written by Hava Rachel Gordon and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reform Parents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In This Is Our School! Hava Rachel Gordon takes us inside these fascinating school reform movements, exploring their origins, aims, and victories as they work to build a better future for our education system. Focusing on a school district in Denver, Colorado, Gordon takes a look at different coalitions within the school reform movement, as well as the surprising competition that arises between them. Drawing on over eighty interviews and ethnographic research, she explores how these groups vie for power, as well as the role that race, class, and gentrification play in shaping their successes and failures, strategies and structures. Gordon shows us what happens when people mobilize from the ground up and advocate for educational change. This Is Our School! gives us an inside look at the diverse voices within the school reform movement, each of which plays an important role in the fight to improve public education.
Download or read book Writing and School Reform written by Joanne Addison and published by CSU Open Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing and School Reform, Joanne Addison and Sharon James McGee respond to a testing and accountability movement that has imposed increasingly stronger measures of control over our classrooms, shifted teaching away from best practices, and eroded teacher and student agency. Drawing on historical and empirical research, Writing and School Reform details the origins of the accountability movement, explores its emerging effects on the teaching of writing, and charts a path forward that reasserts the agency of teachers and researchers in the field.
Download or read book Creating the High Schools of Our Choice written by Tim Westerberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides strategies, tools, and examples to help high school principals achieve the goals put forward in the No Child Left Behind legislation.With its clear examples of best practices in leadership, personalization, and strategic use of data, it will show you how to achieve your school's academic mission.
Download or read book The Legal Basis of Free Secondary Education in Colorado written by Colorado State Teachers College. Department of Educational Research and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Key Questions about Education Reform in Colorado written by Colorado 2000 and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education in Colorado 1861 1885 written by Colorado State Teachers' Association and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standards Based Education Reform Policy written by Jennifer Dawn Moore and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Schools of Choice written by Richard Kraft and published by . This book was released on 1987-11-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education Reform in Colorado written by Joshua Abram and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Nation at Risk written by United States. National Commission on Excellence in Education and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An open letter to the American people.
Download or read book Reinventing America s Schools written by David Osborne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.
Download or read book Confessions of a School Reformer written by Larry Cuban and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Confessions of a School Reformer, eminent historian of education Larry Cuban reflects on nearly a century of education reforms and his experiences with them as a student, educator, and administrator. Cuban begins his own story in the 1930s, when he entered first grade at a Pittsburgh public school, the youngest son of Russian immigrants who placed great stock in the promises of education. With a keen historian's eye, Cuban expands his personal narrative to analyze the overlapping social, political, and economic movements that have attempted to influence public schooling in the United States since the beginning of the twentieth century. He documents how education both has and has not been altered by the efforts of the Progressive Era of the first half of the twentieth century, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s through the 1970s, and the standards-based school reform movement of the 1980s through today. Cuban points out how these dissimilar movements nevertheless shared a belief that school change could promote student success and also forge a path toward a stronger economy and a more equitable society. He relates the triumphs of these school reform efforts as well as more modest successes and unintended outcomes. Interwoven with Cuban's evaluations and remembrances are his "confessions," in which he accounts for the beliefs he held and later rejected, as well as mistakes and areas of weakness that he has found in his own ideology. Ultimately, Cuban remarks with a tempered optimism on what schools can and cannot do in American democracy.
Download or read book Multiethnic Moments written by Susan E. Clarke and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is anyone listening to minority voices in reforming American schools?
Download or read book Education Beyond the High School in Colorado written by John J. Coffelt and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
