Baltimore experiment curbs dropout rate
USA Today ran a story (9/28/06) on Baltimore's Talent Development High School, affiliated with Johns Hopkins University.
Click the link to read the USA Today article, or click here for the Talent Development web site.
"Reformers" who want to "fix" schools on the cheap might not be happy: the Talent Development model has a lot of components that make it work. Here's an excerpt from the program description:
What is the Talent Development High School?
THE TALENT DEVELOPMENT HIGH SCHOOL WITH CAREER ACADEMIES is a comprehensive reform model for large high schools that face serious problems with student attendance, discipline, achievement scores, and dropout rates. The model consists of specific changes in school organization and management to establish a strong, positive school climate for learning; curricular and instructional innovations to transition all students into advanced high school work in English and mathematics; parent and community involvement activities to encourage college awareness; and professional development systems to support the implementation of the recommended reforms.
The Talent Development High School with Career Academies was initiated in 1994 through a partnership of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR) and Patterson High School in Baltimore and has now expanded to high schools in 11 states across the country. Providing more curricular and organizational structure than other high school reform models, CRESPAR strives to balance commitment to the implementation of its core components with a reliance on school-based teachers and administrators to own and adapt the Talent Development model to meet the needs of their school. The model is recognized in the list of designs cited in the federal Obey-Porter Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration legislation.
Key Components of the TDHS Model:
3 comments:
What can we do about the lack of security in America's schools? When anyone can walk in off the streets and kill our children, we must find ways to fun security systems that protect our schools. Where do we go for help?
Watching what happened over the last week, I can't help but think that...if guns weren't so accessible in America....
I hear so many stories of gun tragedies and so few stories of how our armed society is safe....
So, on to my next post. Now, I know what it is....
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