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  • High School Students Thinking Like Scientists

    Generating classroom discussions with high school students can be arduous work, requiring both careful planning and quick thinking. EDC’s Center for Science Education has developed an online course focused on helping teachers pose questions and manage classroom discussions that are both more engaging for students and more scientific in substance.

  • Teachers as Collaborators

    Robin Fies stands at the blackboard in a small auditorium at Watertown High School in Massachusetts as 16 teenagers pass through the door and take their seats. In her 30 years of teaching high school mathematics, Fies has seen just about every classroom configuration possible, from lectures and rows to small groups to the open classroom. But today her precalculus class looks different than it ever has before.

  • Merging Life Skills and Academic Rigor

    Known for its academic rigor—many of the participating sites offer college credit for the course—and hands-on activities, Ford PAS is also renowned for its adaptability. High schools around the country have developed creative and challenging courses with the curriculum modules all in hopes of setting the stage for their students’ advancement to higher education.

  • Creating Healthy High Schools

    What educators and parents have intuitively known—that students who are “connected” at school fare better than those who feel alienated—is now becoming a priority as researchers identify the ingredients of successful school reform.

  • Inclusive Schools: Portraits of Excellence

    Examples of high-performing schools where all students, including those with disabilities, are achieving academic and social success.