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School Redesign A Step Closer to Reality
Michigan Association for Supervision & Curriculum
Development, February 2005
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The push for
remaking the American high schools became one step closer to
reality as the nation’s governors released their Action Agenda
for Improving America’s High Schools and called for a
fundamental redesign of the American high school, including an
alignment with postsecondary institutions. States will be called
on to provide a seamless governance structure, headed by a
single board, for all education from early childhood through
higher education.
The tenets of the reform being pushed include: giving principals
more authority while at the same time holding them more
accountable for staff retention, truancy and student
achievement; streamlining education governance to move the K-16
concept from rhetoric to reality; raising the value of the high
school diploma which would include making college prep courses
the default curriculum and improving testing to measure student
achievement; redesigning the high school program to better meet
a variety of student needs, such as having early college high
schools or schools that provide certification for work in some
industries; and provide incentives to attract and retain
teachers in curriculum areas of greatest need.
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www.michiganascd.org/resources.htm
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