Education Week

What makes a high school "high-performing"? Can we identify certain factors that will matter most to the young adults inheriting our fractured world?

Those questions occupy my mind especially just now. On December 2-3, the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) will gather in Providence, RI, for its final annual Fall Forum. Started as a "conversation among friends" that followed the 1984 publication of Horace's Compromise, CES became a nationwide movement for progressive education in the following three decades. Its ten common principles about how youth learn undergird the work of many of the organizations and school networks that stand for "deeper learning" in today's landscape...