The following links represent just some of the results of Talent Development High Schools. What Works Clearinghouse, Intervention Report, Dropout Interventions Institute of Education Sciences rated Talent Development High Schools “potentially positive effects” for progressing in school. July 16, 2007 Making Progress Toward Graduation, Evidence from the Talent Development High School Model James J. Kemple, Corinne M. Herlihy, and Thomas J. Smith, MDRC, June 2005. Accompanying video report, www.mdrc.org Go to video archives, April 2007 Easing the Transition to High School: Research and Best Practices Designed to Support High School Learning Policy Brief, National High School Center at the American Institutes of Research, Washington, D.C., 2007. Toward Ensuring a Smooth Transition Into High School Issue Brief, National High School Center at the American Institutes of Research, Washington, D.C. 2007. Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center (CSRQ) Report on Middle and High School Comprehensive School Reform Models Washington, D.C., October 2006 The Talent Development High School Model, Context, Components, and Initial Impacts on Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Performance James J. Kemple, Corinne M. Herlihy, June 2004.
No Child Left Behind Act; Education Could Do More to Help States Better Define Graduation Rates and Improve Knowledge about Intervention Strategies Government Accounting Office, September 2005. |