Expert: Large-scale school improvement possible

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Expert: Large-scale school improvement possible

Along with increasing high school graduation rates in recent years, K-12 stakeholders have seen "enormous expansion of the knowledge base about what matters most for student success and school improvement," according to Mariana Haynes, senior fellow with the Alliance for Excellent Education. During a recent Alliance webinar on leveraging innovation to increase educational attainment, Haynes pointed out that although the nation recently reported the highest-ever overall graduation rate of 81 percent in 2012, that leaves almost 20 percent of students who do not from graduate from high school on time in an era when family-sustaining jobs increasingly require postsecondary education or training.