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Pennsylvania Department of Education
Project 720
Dropout Prevention
FY 2005-06 Appropriation for Dual Enrollment
Pennsylvania Governor's Commission on College and Career Success
Homepage
Commission's Final Report
U.S. Department of Education
Preparing America's Future: The Secretary's High School Initiative
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
High School Reform State Grants
School Dropout Prevention Program
Education Commission of the States
High School Issues Homeage
Exit Exams Database
National Conference of State Legislatures
High School Reform Homepage
Small Learning Communities
Dropout Reporting
Career Preparation
Jobs for the Future
Homepage
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Early College High School Initiative
The National High School Alliance
Homepage
Career Academy National Standards of Practice
National Center for Education Statistics
NAEP High School Transcript Study
Achieve, Inc.
Homepage
2005 National Education Summit on High Schools
American Diploma Project
National Commission on the High School Senior Year
Homepage
National Governors Association
Redesigning the American High School (Chairman's
Initiative)
The American High School Crisis and State Policy Solutions
Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research
K-16 Bridge Project
Southern Regional Education Board
High Schools that Work
HSTW: Pennsylvania Progress Report
Council of Chief State School Officers
Secondary/Middle School Reform Projects
Community-Based Organization High Schools Project
Immigrant Students and Secondary Schools Reform Project
National Dropout Prevention Center/Network
Homepage
Alliance for Excellent Education
College Preparation
Promising Practices Network
Increase the percentage of students who graduate from high school
State Initiatives
Virginia -
Senior Year Plus
Texas -
Dropout Prevention Clearinghouse
Florida -
New High School Graduation Options
Illinois -
New Dropout Prevention Law
Massachusetts -
Pathways to Success on the MCAS
RESEARCH & REPORTS [Top]
Reform Strategies
| Exit Exams
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Graduation Rate/Dropouts
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Reform Strategies
The State Role in Accelerating Student Growth in Low-Performing High Schools NEW!
Education Commission of the States, May 2007
Governor's Commission on College and Career Success: Final Report NEW!
Pennsylvania Governor's Commission, December 2006
Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools
Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students
The Education Trust, November 2005
The Power to Change: High Schools that Help All Students Achieve
The Education Trust, November 2005
Evaluation of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's High
School Grants, 2001-2004
American Institutes for Research & SRI International, November 2005
Building a Portfolio of High Schools: A Strategic Investment
Toolkit
Jobs for the Future, 2005
Rethinking High School: Five Profiles of Innovative Models for
Student Success -
WestEd for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2005
Making Progress Toward Graduation: Evidence from the Talent
Development High School Model
MDRC, May 2005
Improving High Schools: A Strategic Approach
Legislative Analyst's Office, California Assembly, May 2005
A Call to Action: Transforming High School for All Youth
National High School Alliance, April 2005
Advancing High School Reform in the States: Policies and Programs
National Association of Secondary School Principals and
KnowledgeWorks Foundation, 2005
An Action Agenda for Improving America's High Schools
National Governors Association, February 2005
Getting It Done: Ten Steps to a State Action Agenda
National Governors Association, February 2005
Big Buildings, Small Schools: Using a Small Schools Reform
Strategy for High School Reform
Jobs for the Future, 2004
Crisis at the Core: Preparing All Students for College and
Work
Click here for the "Crisis at the Core" Executive Summary.
ACT, 2004
Redesigning High Schools to Prepare Students for the Future
Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Winter 2004
New Traditions: Options for Rural High School Excellence
Southern Governors' Association, September 2004
The Talent Development High School Model
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., June 2004
Career Academies: Impacts on Labor Market Outcomes and
Educational Attainment
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., March 2004
Linking Career/Technical Studies to Broader High School
Reform: What can school districts, states and the nation do to
get more high schools to implement comprehensive high school
reform?
Southern Regional Education Board, 2004
Raise Academic Standards and Get More Students to Complete
High School: How 13 Georgia Schools Did It
Southern Regional Education Board, 2004
Rethinking High School: The Next Frontier for State
Policymakers
The Aspen Institute, January 2003
A New Core Curriculum for All
The Education Trust, Thinking K-16, Winter 2003
From Large to Small: Strategies for Personalizing the High
School
Jobs for the Future, October 2002
What the Research Shows: Breaking Ranks in Action
National Association of Secondary School Principals, 2002
The Progress of Education Reform: High School Curriculum
Education Commission of the States, August-September 2001
Closing the Achievement Gap: A High Schools That Work Design
for Challenged Schools
Southern Regional Education Board
The 2000 High Schools That Work Assessment: Improving Urban
High Schools
Southern Regional Education Board
High School Reform: Literature Review of What Works - 2002
Research and Development Center for the Advancement of Student
Learning, Colorado State University, 2002
High Schools of the Millennium
American Youth Policy Forum, August 2000
Exit Exams
State High School Exit Exams: Students with Disabilities -- Policy Brief 3
NEW!
Center on Education Policy, March 2008
State High School Exit Exams: Patterns in Gaps in Pass Rates -- Policy Brief 2
NEW!
Center on Education Policy, February 2008
State High School Exit Exams: A Move Toward End-of-Course Exams -- Policy Brief 1 NEW!
Center on Education Policy, January 2008
State High School Exit Exams: Working to Raise Test Scores NEW!
Center on Education Policy, September 2007
State High School Exit Exams: A Challenging Year
Center on Education Policy, August 2006
States Try Harder, But Gap Persists: High School Exit Exams 2005
Center on Education Policy, August 2005
Multiple Measures Approaches to High School Graduation
The School Redesign Network at Stanford University, 2005
The Relationship of High School Graduation Exams to Graduation
Rates and SAT Scores
By Gregory J. Marchant and Sharon E. Paulson, Ball State
University. Published in the Education Policy Analysis
Archives, January 2005
State High School Exit Exams: A Maturing Reform
Center on Education Policy, August 2004
Do Graduation Tests Measure Up? A Closer Look at State High
School Exit Exams
Achieve, Inc., June 2004
Pay Now or Pay Later: The Hidden Costs of High School Exit
Exams
Center for Education Policy, May 2004
Pushed Out or Pulled Up? Exit Exams and Dropout Rates in
Public High Schools
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, May 2004
Mixed Messages: What State High School Tests Communicate
About Student Readiness for College
Standards for Success, 2003
State High School Exit Exams Put to the Test
Center on Education Policy, August 2003
Senior Year
A Profile of the American High School Senior in 2004: A First
Look. Initial Results From the First Follow-up of the
Education Longitudinal Study of 2002
National Center for Education Statistics, October 2005
Raising Our Sites: No High School Senior Left Behind
National Commission on the High School Senior Year,
October 2001
Youth at the Crossroads: Facing High School and Beyond
Prepared for the National Commission on the High School Senior
Year by The Education Trust, Inc.
Overcoming the High School Senior Slump: New Education
Policies
Institute for Educational Leadership and the National Center
for Public Policy and Higher Education, May 2001
Graduation Rate/Dropouts
Numbers and Rates of Public High School Dropouts: School Year 2004–05 NEW!
National Center for Education Statistics, December 2007
Career and Technical Education's Role in Dropout Prevention and Recovery NEW!
Association for Career and Technical Education, 2007
The Progress of Education Reform 2007: Dropout Prevention
Education Commission of the States, July 2007
User’s Guide to Computing High School Graduation Rates, Volume
1: Review of Current and Proposed Graduation Indicators
National Center for Education Statistics, August 2006
User’s Guide to Computing High School Graduation Rates, Volume
2: Technical Evaluation of Proxy Graduation Indicators
National Center for Education Statistics, August 2006
Estimating Graduation and Dropout Rates with Longitudinal Data:
A Case Study in the Pittsburgh Public Schools
RAND, July 2006
Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates
Editorial Projects in Education, June 2006
The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for Public High Schools
From the Common Core of Data: School Years 2002–03 and 2003-04
National Center for Education Statistics, June 2006
Identifying Potential Dropouts: Key Lessons for Building an
Early Warning Data System
Achieve, Inc., June 2006
Making Good on a Promise: What Policymakers Can Do to Improve
the Educational Persistence of Dropouts
Jobs for the Future, April 2006
The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts
A report by Civic Enterprises in association with Peter D. Hart
Research Associates for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, March 2006
The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for Public High Schools
from the Common Core of Data: School Years 2001-02 and 2002-03
National Center for Education Statistics, November 2005
The Higher Drop-Out Rate of Foreign-Born Teens: The Role of
Schooling Abroad
Pew Hispanic Center, November 2005
Graduation Counts: A Compact on State High School Graduation
Data
National Governors Association, July 2005
Graduation Counts: A Report of the NGA Task Force on State
High School Graduation Data
National Governors Association, July 2005
The Alternative Pathways Project: A Framework for Dropout
Reduction and Recovery
The Alternative Pathways Project, June 2005
Graduation Gap Fact Sheet: Youth in Transition Series
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, June 2005
Getting Honest About Grad Rates: How States Play the Numbers
and Students Lose
The Education Trust, June 2005
What Counts: Defining and Improving High School Graduation
Rates
National Association of Secondary School Principals, 2005
The Effect of Residential School Choice on Public High School
Graduation Rates
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, April 2005
Keeping Middle Grades Students on Track to Graduation
Power Point presentation by Robert Balfanz, Johns Hopkins
University, and Liza Herzog, Philadelphia Education, March 2005
Public High School Graduation and College-Readiness Rates:
1991–2002
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, February 2005
The Expectations Gap: A 50-State Review of High School
Graduation Requirements
Achieve, Inc., 2004
National Institute of Statistical Sciences/Education
Statistics Services Institute Task Force on Graduation,
Completion, and Dropout Indicators
National Center for Education Statistics, November 2004
Educational Attainment of High School Dropouts 8 Years Later
National Center for Education Statistics, November 2004
The Dropout Crisis: Promising Approaches to Prevention and
Recovery
Jobs for the Future, 2004
Multiple Measures Approaches to High School Graduation
School Redesign Network, April 2004
Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth Are Being Left Behind
By the Graduation Rate Crisis
A paper jointly release by The Civil Rights Project at
Harvard University, The Urban Institute, Advocates for
Children of New York, and The Civil Society Institute,
February 2004
15 Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention
By Frank P. Schargel & Jay Smink in association with the
National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson University
Telling the Whole Truth (or Not) About High School
Graduation
The Education Trust, December 2003
Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School
Graduates by State, Income, and Race/Ethnicity
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education,
December 2003
High School Graduation Rates in the United States
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, April 2002
Saved by an Education: A Successful Model for Dramatically
Increasing High School Graduation Rates in Low Income
Neighborhoods
Center for Community Change, May 2001
How Many Central City High Schools Have a Severe Dropout
Problem, Where Are They Located, and Who Attends Them?
Summaries of Papers Presented at DROPOUTS IN AMERICA,
Sponsored by Achieve, Inc. and The Civil Rights Project at
Harvard University
Reports from the Pennsylvania Department of Education:
Dual Enrollment
Accelerated Learning Opportunities: Moving the Needle on Access
and Success - A Study of State and Institutional Policies and Practices
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, June 2006
Head Start on College: Dual Enrollment Strategies in New
England 2004-2005
Jobs for the Future, April 2005
Add and Subtract: Dual Enrollment as a State Strategy to
Increase Postsecondary Success for Underrepresented Students
Jobs for the Future, April 2005
Dual Credit and Exam-Based Courses in U.S. Public High
Schools: 2002-03
National Center for Education Statistics, April 2005
Dual Enrollment of High School Students at Postsecondary
Institutions: 2002-03
National Center for Education Statistics, April 2005
Dual Enrollment Programs: Easing the Transitions from High
School to College
Community College Research Center, March 2003
Dual Enrollment: Accelerating the Transition to College
U.S. Department of Education
Other
2007 ACT National Profile Report NEW!
Act, 2007
The 2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations: Comparative Data on Credits Earned and Demographics for 2000, 1998, 1994, 1990, 1987, and 1982 High School Graduates NEW!
National Center for Education Statistics, July 2007
Economic Outcomes of High School Completers and Noncompleters 8 Years Later
National Center for Education Statistics, October 2006
The College Ladder: Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Education
for Success for All Students
American Youth Policy Forum, September 2006
Paying Double: Inadequate High Schools and Community College Remediation
Alliance for Excellent Education, August 2006
High School Reform and Work: Facing Labor Market Realities
Educational Testing Service, June 2006
Preparing PA Youth for Success in a 21st Century Economy
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, June 2006
Alignment of High School Graduation Requirements and State-Set
College Admissions Requirements
Education Commission of the States, April 2006
Claiming Common Ground: State Policymaking for Improving
College Readiness and Success
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, March 2006
Closing the Expectations Gap 2006: An Annual 50 State Progress
Report on the Alignment of High School Policies with the Demands
of College and Work
Achieve, Inc., February 2006
The High Schools Hispanics Attend: Size and Other Key
Characteristics
Pew Hispanic Center, November 2005
Life as a Teenager in Pennsylvania - The State of Youth
Employment
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, August 2005
What We Can Learn from High School Students
High School Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University
School of Education, August 2005
Ready for the Real World? Americans Speak on High School Reform
Educational Testing Service, June 2005
Remaking Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century:
What Role for High School Programs?
Jobs for the Future, April 2005
Holding High Hopes: How High Schools Respond to State
Accountability Policies
Consortium for Policy Research in Education, March 2005
A Profile of the American High School Sophomore in 2002:
Initial Results From the Base Year of the Longitudinals Study
of 2002
National Center for Education Statistics, March 2005
America's High Schools: The Front Line in the Battle of Our
Economic Future
From the 2005 National Education Summit on High Schools,
sponsored by the National Governors Association and Achieve,
Inc., February 2005
On Course for Success: A Close Look at Selected High School
Courses that Prepare All Students for College
By ACT and The Education Trust, February 2005
Rising to the Challenge: Are High School Graduates Prepared
for College and Work?
Achieve, Inc., February 2005
Profiles in Leadership: Innovative Approaches to Transforming the
American High School
A collection of essays published by the Alliance for Excellent
Education, 2004
Legal Issues and Small High Schools: Strategies to Support
Innovations in Washington State
Center on Reinventing Public Education, July 2004
12th Grade Student Achievement in America: A New Vision for
NAEP
National Commission on NAEP 12th Grade Assessment and
Reporting, March 2004
Every Child a Graduate: A Framework for an Excellent Education
for all Middle and High School Students
Alliance for Excellent Education, September 2002
Ready for Tomorrow: Helping All Students Achieve Secondary
and Postsecondary Success
National Governors Association, November 2003
Crisis or Possibility: Conversations About the American
High School
National High School Alliance, May 2004
From the Prison Track to the College Track: Pathways to
Postsecondary Success for Out-of-School Youth
Jobs for the Future, April 2004
All Over the Map: State Policies to Improve the High School
National High School Alliance, June 2002
State Policies to Facilitate the Preparedness of Students for
Careers and Postsecondary Success
Power Point presentation from the National High School
Alliance
Ready or Not: Creating a High School Diploma that Counts
Achieve, Inc., February 2004
Who Graduates? Who Doesn't? A Statistical Portrait of
Public High School Graduation, Class of 2001
The Urban Institute, February 2004
Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform
National Association of Secondary School Principals,
February 2004
Are California High Schools Ready for the 21st Century?
The Education Trust - West, 2004
High Time for High School Reform: Early Findings from the
Evaluation of the National School District and Network
Grants Program
A report from The American Institutes for Research and SRI
International for The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
April 2003
Seizing the Day: Massachusetts' At-Risk High School Students
Speak Out on Their Experiences at the Front Lines of Education
Reform
Mass Insight Education, October 2003
Betraying the College Dream: How Disconnected K-12 and
Postsecondary Education Systems Undermine Student Aspirations
The Bridge Project, March 2003
State-Level Reporting of High School Outcomes and
Post-Secondary Readiness Data
National Association of Systems Heads, August 2002
Student Readiness for College: Connecting State Policies
Southern Regional Education Board, May 2002
High School Academic Curriculum and the Persistence Path
Through College
National Center for Education Statistics, April 2001
Youth at the Crossroads: Facing High School and Beyond
Thinking K-16 from The Education Trust, Winter 2001
Great Expectations: Reforming Urban High Schools
Council of the Great City Schools, October 2000
Opening Doors to the Future: Preparing Low-Achieving Middle
Grades Students to Succeed in High School
Southern Regional Education Board, 2002
Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in U.S.
Secondary Schools
The Urban Institute, December 2000
CURRENT
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATION [Top]
Senate Bills
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House Bills
House Bill 64 (Rep. Jess Stairs)
Establishes a High School Redesign Commission to collect,
review, analyze and recommend strategies for the General
Assembly and school districts to promote and improve high
school performance and to achieve efficiences in delivery of
secondary education.
Archived Legislation
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to review High School Reform related legislation introduced
during the 2005-2006 Legislative Session.
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to review High School Reform related legislation introduced
during the 2003-2004 Legislative Session.
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