Focused on Student Success: A Five-Year Research Study on Models, Networks, and Policies to Support and Sustain Rigor and Relevance for ALL Students

The Successful Practices Network, the International Center for Leadership in Education, and the Council of Chief State School Officers, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, embarked on a five-year high school initiative to identify, analyze, enrich, and disseminate the nation’s most successful schoolwide practices and policies as a way to achieve a rigorous and relevant curriculum for all students, with a particular focus on classroom instruction and effective learning. The Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations partnered with this group in 2009-10 to provide research support for the initiative, as presented in this report. Click the image to the left to download the article.