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Low-performing schools.


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 research organization, has released a report offering practical, research-based lessons for improving low-performing high schools.

The report draws lessons from multiyear evaluations of three comprehensive programs--Career Academics, First Things First Things is a monthly ecumenical journal concerned with the creation of a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society" (First Things website).  First and Talent Development--all of which reported success in multiple school districts.

For a copy of the report, visit MDRC's website (www.mdrc.org).
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Date:Aug 1, 2006
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