Accelerated Schools: Growth, Challenges and Outcomes
Posted by on November 05, 2012
A Community Roundtable
Accelerated Schools: Growth, Challenges and Outcomes
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
1-3PM
1709 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Since 2004, accelerated high schools in Philadelphia have offered over-aged and under-credited students a different path to graduation.
Join us for a grassroots and grasstops discussion.
Grasstops: Presentation of Data, Year One Report: Philadelphia’s Accelerated High Schools
Research for Action will present findings from the firrst year of a two-year evaluation of the accelerated high schools, including characteristics of the student population, and enrollment, retention, and graduation data.
Michael Norton, Research Associate and Eva Gold, Senior Research Fellow
Grassroots: Voices from the Field
Key players in the Accelerated Schools will discuss the successes and challenges of their work.
Milton Alexander, Vice President of Alternative Education Programs for Camelot Schools
David Bromley, Executive Director and Founder of Big Picture Philadelphia
Marcus Delgado, Deputy CEO of Fairhill Community High School
Majeedah Scott, Re-Engagement Center
RSVP: info@pccy.org
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