On the Road for Better Ideas

Pittsburgh group tours two dozen high schools.

Seven cities in 2½ weeks. Sound like a touring schedule for a rock band? Nope. Try a high school reform task force from Pittsburgh.

The group just wrapped up a tour of 24 high schools as part of its work to reconceptualize and rework secondary education in the Steel City.

Between mid-September and early October, subsets of the 23-person task force roamed the hallways of exemplary schools from Boston to Detroit to Dallas to get a firsthand look at strategies that emerged as promising in...

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