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The history of public education in the United States is available from Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_education#History
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Education Week
"We cover local, state, and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade." http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html
This School Works for Me: A Guide for America's Leaders
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Published: January 2010
Shares promising strategies for raising high school graduation rates, with a focus on how district leaders and decision makers can identify at-risk students, implement interventions, and offer a mix of options and programs that expands college readiness.
Publication Type: Toolkit
PubHub Link(24 pages; 6.02MB; PDF)
http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/pubhub/pubhub_item.jhtml?id=fdc98200011
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Small Schools, BIG IMPACT
The Changing Landscape of High School Achievement
The Oregon Small Schools Initiative, the largest high school reform demonstration project in Oregon history, aims to address graduation rates and student achievement by creating small high schools characterized by:
• rigor in the classroom instruction,
• coursework with a high degree of relevance, and
• meaningful relationships.
This preliminary report explores encouraging early outcomes of the Initiative, including quantifiable results and examples of successful practices. In 2009-2010, the final funding year of the Initiative, expanded analysis will continue to reveal trends in student achievement. Additional data and reports will be made available online as open source. For a full report, click here.
