According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.
