Aiming high: how new research and model programs are reclaiming the American high school.(Educating America)
American Prospect, The, February, 2004 by Franke-Ruta, Garance
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AFTER LUNCH, STUDENTS AT J.E.B. STUART HIGH SCHOOL in Fairfax County, Va., bound out of a cafeteria where more than half are poor enough to qualify for federally subsidized free or reduced cost lunch, a jumble of English and Spanish and high spirits bouncing off the walls. But as soon as classes are in session, the halls become a model of order; sparkling with new tiled walls thanks to a five-year, bond-funded renovation of the 1959 building.
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Principal Mel Riddile oversees the 1,431 person student body, made up largely of the low-income, minority, immigrant sons and daughters of ...
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