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Using ARRA Funds to
Drive High School Improvement
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Turnaround High Schools
Below are resources that can help states and districts in their planning regarding how to apply ARRA funding so that it has the greatest impact on high school improvement:
Systemic Improvement
- Eight Elements of High School Improvement: A Mapping Framework
- Emerging Evidence on Improving High School Student Achievement and Graduation Rates: The Effects of Four Popular Improvement Programs
- Quick Stats Fact Sheet: High Schools in the U.S.
- Report on Key Practices and Policies of Consistently Higher Performing High Schools
- States' Progress Toward High School Restructuring
Dropout Prevention
- Approaches to Dropout Prevention: Heeding Early Warning Signs With Appropriate Interventions
- Developing Early Warning Systems to Identify Potential High School Dropouts [Early Warning System Guide]
- Early Warning System Tool
- Dropout Prevention for Students With Disabilities: A Critical Issue for State Education Agencies
- High School Dropout: A Quick Stats Fact Sheet
- State Approaches to More Reliable and Uniform Dropout and Graduation Data
Transitions into High School
- Easing the Transition to High School: Research and Best Practices Designed to Support High School Learning
- Managing the Transition to Ninth Grade in a Comprehensive Urban High School
- Toward Ensuring a Smooth Transition Into High School
- Quick Stats Fact Sheet: The First Year of High School
- State and District-Level Support for Successful Transitions into High School
Postsecondary Pathways
- Evaluating the Impact of Interventions that Promote Successful Transitions from High School
- Preparing High School Students for Successful Transitions to Postsecondary Education and Employment
- Striking the Balance: Career Academies Combine Academic Rigor and Workplace Relevance
- Transitioning Out of High School: A Quick Stats Fact Sheet
- Educating English Language Learners at the High School Level: A Coherent Approach to District- and School-Level Support
- High School Course-Taking Patterns for English Language Learners: A Case Study from California
- Improving Literacy Outcomes for English Language Learners in High School: Considerations for States and Districts in Developing a Coherent Policy Framework
- Selected States’ Responses to Supporting High School English Language Learners
Dual Enrollment
Tiered Interventions
- Meeting the Needs of Significantly Struggling Learners in High School: A Look at Approaches to Tiered Intervention
- New Hampshire's Multi-Tiered Approach to Dropout Prevention
High School Literacy
- Quick Stats Fact Sheet: High School Literacy
- Sustaining Focus on Secondary School Reading: Lessons and Recommendations from the Alabama Reading Initiative
