Youth at the Crossroads Report

Recommendations:

· No longer think of high school as a culminating experience

· High school students must engage in rigorous, intellectually challenging work and make more growth during their high school years.

Requires:

· Clear goals: Raising sights, narrowing purpose and focusing their energies

· Curriculum: Curriculum rigor with challenging content

· Teachers Matter: top third of teachers produced as much as six times the learning growth as the bottom third of teachers.

· Challenging Assignments and High Expectations: Only 3 in 10 teenagers think their school is “very academically rigorous”

· School Size Matters – smaller schools