Every Student Deserves a Legacy 2006:
Real-life stories from the front lines of high school reform
These publications have been named a winner of the 2007 and 2008 Silver Award for Excellence in Communications from the Council on Foundations.
What's it like to enter high school as a freshman with nearly 2,000 classmates and two years later be a student leader helping run a brand new school of just 400?
Or to teach for 30 years and get so excited about a new approach to education that you trade everything you know for the chance to make it work?
To believe in a school so strongly you volunteer to sit through dozens of two-hour meetings – even though your children have already graduated?
Or to sit in a college classroom at age 15, still in high school and already the first person in your family to go to college?
Two new publications from KnowledgeWorks Foundation tell these stories and dozens more – real-life stories of the people behind one of the country's most ambitious efforts to reinvent failing urban high schools.
They're stories of triumph and frustration, progress and setbacks. Told by freelance writers who observed the schools first-hand throughout the 2005-06 school year, they capture the reality behind the statistics, reports and debate to reveal how new approaches to high school education are touching lives.
Learning by Degree: Real-life stories from three early college high schools
Small Moments, Big Dreams: Real-life stories from five redesigned urban high schools
Every Student Deserves a Legacy: A Year of Transformation in the Lives of Ohio's Urban High School Students
