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Why the School System Needs to Change, and How

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Do High Schools Prepare Students for Careers

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Are High Schools Preparing Students for College?

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Are High Schools Preparing Students for the Future?

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Are High Schools Preparing Students for the Real World?

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Just Checking In

By Beth Fertig

“Harmonious Pandemonium”: Working Together for High School Innovation

By Edward Montalvo

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In Cedar Rapids, Iowa BIG Collaborates with Districts to Change the High…

By Andrew Bauld

two students working on a electronic project

How to Create High Schools Where Students Co-Lead

By Team XQ

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How Listening to Communities Led to Historic New Equity-Based High School Graduation…

By Team XQ

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This High School Cracked the Code for Personalized Learning—and You Can Too

By Beth Fertig

This Teenage Life: Back to School

By Beth Fertig

Transforming High School Literacy: Responding to NAEP Scores with Science of Reading…

By Edward Montalvo

A whiteboard in a classroom with vocabulary words listed on colorful post-it notes.

The Four Steps of Reciprocal Teaching

By Andrew Bauld

Students collaborate on a reading assignment on a dark table while writing on notebook paper.

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