Carnegie
Corporation
of New York
Vol. 1/No. 1
Winter 2003
Carnegie Corporation of New York is pleased to introduce this inaugural issue of Carnegie Results, a quarterly newsletter that will report on Corporation-supported organizations and projects that have produced reports, results or information of special note.
From Large to Small:
Reinventing the Urban High School
A new report from Carnegie Corporation grantee Jobs for the Future offers strategies for personalizing large urban high schools:help them become small, learning communities where students and teachers are both engaged in meaningful, challenging work.
In large, depersonalized urban school districts across the nation, the need for high school reform is urgent and challenging: of the students who enter high school, only 68 percent earn a diploma. This rate drops as low as 50 percent in many districts, especially those in the largest cities. Only 75 percent of high school graduates go to college.
Jobs for the Future (JFF), a Boston-based, nonprofit organization founded in 1983, has recently released From Large to Small: Strategies for Personalizing the High School. In the report, JFF shares the latest information about successful new models of urban high school reform and describes some pitfalls of redesign. (To read the entire text of From Large to Small, click here.)