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Creating Schools That Work: Lessons for Reform from Successful Urban High Schools

Policymakers and practitioners need evidence to guide decision making on improving high school student achievement. The Center for Education Research & Policy at MassINC, JFF, and the Center for Collaborative Education partnered to explore this critical issue and generate discussion around possible strategies for leveraging best practices used in Massachusetts urban high schools. CERP identified nine urban schools that show, to varying degrees, that they can get impressive academic results with the student populations education reform is meant to serve. Creating Schools That Work, a collaboration between the Center for Collaborative Education and JFF, used those findings to present state and district policy recommendations for creating the conditions by which a far greater number of urban high schools can educate their diverse student bodies and prepare them to succeed in college and beyond.