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
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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...
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Study Highlights Changes In D.C. School Enrollment:
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Invitation to Dream
Invitation to Dream Report Release and Documentary Premiere
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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.
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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.
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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
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