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

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