Preventable failure

“System shifts—large, consistent improvements that create lasting change across subgroups and considerably reduce variation in outcomes across schools—are rare in education. This is one of those rare cases.”

That’s a key takeaway from Preventable Failure: Improvements in Long-Term Outcomes when High Schools Focused on the Ninth Grade Year, a forthcoming research report from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research examining how a focus on ninth-grade “on-track” rates lead to dramatic improvements in high school graduation rates across all subgroups, including race, gender, and achievement levels, in twenty Chicago public high schools...