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D.C. high school students contribute to research on reforming schools Last February the education advocacy group offered over 200 high school students the opportunities to attend summits that covered the elements that make the difference between thriving and failing schools Read the article At D.C.'s Phelps, High, A Return to the Future: The article lays out the renovations that are being undertaken and the advances this has for vocational education. The greenhouse at Phelps High School is a shell of exterior brick walls and exposed steel beams. But by August... Read the article Study Highlights Changes In D.C. School Enrollment: Read the article	Invitation to Dream Invitation to Dream Report Release and Documentary Premiere Read the report DC VOICE and others extend an "Invitation to Dream" as they present a documentary film and their research regarding high school students' vision for High School reform as the culmination of the "Invitation to Dream" youth summit series on May 1, 2008 at 7 PM in the Greenberg Theatre. Please click here for more information. DC VOICE, with co-chairs, American University and the DC Arts and Humanities Collaborative, host the Invitation to Dream Youth Summits. Invitation to Dream is a series of art-based student forums about the High School Dropout epidemic. Click here for gallery	Panel Proposes Streamlining Math About a third of the nation's eighth-grade students, and roughly a quarter of its high school seniors, are proficient writers, according to nationwide test results released Thursday. That proportion of students demonstrating writing proficiency is about the same as in 2002, when a similar exam was last given. But the results of the latest test, administered last year, also found modest increases in the skills of lower-performing students. Nearly 9 students in 10 can now demonstrate at least a basic achievement in writing, defined as partial mastery of the skills needed for proficient work. As in the past, girls girls outperformed boys by far, most decisively at the eighth-grade level, where 41 percent of them achieved Read the article

Starting off Right
RSP Last fall, 191 volunteers from every ward across the city came together to audit 137 DC Public Schools as part of the 4th Annual Ready Schools Project. The results are in!

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A Report on English Language Learners (ELL)
RSP The ELL report assesses school readiness at the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year to provide special services to students identified as linguistically and culturally diverse. Subject covered include staffing, training, translation, system supports, and also provides background on the legal compliance issues.The ELL report assesses school readiness at the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year to provide special services to students identified as linguistically and culturally diverse. Subject covered include staffing, training, translation, system supports, and also provides background on the legal compliance issues.

Full Report – English
Full Report – Spanish
Summary – English
Summary – Spanish
Summary – Chinese
Summary – French
Summary – Amharic
Summary - Vietnamese

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Please use these two new guides to learn more about the two chief recommendations of the 2007 Ready Schools Project and what other jurisdictions are doing in these two areas.

DC VOICE guide to the Interagency Commission

DC VOICE guide to Professional Development


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