Reformers Seek End to Complete High Schools
A pair of education reformers argues in a new book that American public education should do away with a central, yet outdated institution: the comprehensive high school.
That is just one of several radical changes the two say are needed to save public schools. Classes in grades K-2, they maintain, should be no larger than 12 students, and educators should be subject to rewards and sanctions, including loss of their jobs, based on student performance.
The prescription for an education system rooted in high standards for all students appears in Standards for Our Schools: How to Set Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them , written by Marc S. Tucker and Judy B. Codding of the Washington-based National Center on Education and the Economy and released last...
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