Early Warning System Middle Grades Tool - The National High School Center's Early Warning System (EWS) Middle Grades Tool enables schools and districts to identify students who may be at risk for academic failure and to monitor these students’ responses to interventions. (National High School Center, December 2011)...

High School Knowledge Database - The high school knowledge database is a repository for collected resources – research, tools, and products – that address a number of high school improvement areas...

The National High School Center - The National High School Center is one of five content centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education to help build states' capacity to effectively implement the provisions of No Child Left Behind. Housed at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), the center is assisted by Learning Points Associates, MDRC, the National Center for Educational Accountability, the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network, the National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities and WestEd. The center provides technical assistance in high school reform to the 16 federal Regional Comprehensive Centers and their constituent states, and is developing a research database and other resources....

The National High School Alliance - The National High School Alliance, housed at the Institute for Educational Leadership, is a partnership of over 40 organizations representing a diverse cross-section of perspectives and approaches, but sharing a common commitment to promoting the excellence, equity and development of high school-age youth. Their Web site offers links to recent original research, policy analysis, information about reform models (“practice”) and opportunities for public engagement. The site also hosts the Catalog of Research on Secondary School Reform (CoRSSR), a collection of emerging research on high schools, middle schools and high-school-age youth. It includes implementation research of many national high school reform models and initiatives, effectiveness studies, including many about philanthropic initiatives and studies of particular local and state policies....

K-16 Bridge Project - The Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research created the Bridge Project to help students enter and succeed in higher education by aligning K-12 curriculum, standards and assessments with higher education admissions. This site includes access to research and reports related to the project, as well as descriptive analysis of current policy and suggestions for improving the current system....

Michigan Department of Career Development - This site provides insight into the more than 60 career-focused high schools in Michigan. The schools work with employers, K-12 schools and community colleges to fully integrate career preparation into Michigan’s education system. The program consists of six "career pathways" – Arts & Communication; Business Management, Marketing & Technology; Engineering, Manufacturing & Industrial Technology; Health Sciences; Human Services; and Natural Resources & Agriscience. Detailed information on the program and its components are included....

Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) High Schools Site - Through its members states, SREB works to prepare high school students for college by providing Advanced Placement courses, developing college-to-school reporting systems, raising academic standards and improving teacher preparation. This site includes links to the board’s nationally acclaimed High Schools That Work initiative, as well as suggestions for accountability and assessment, college readiness, distance learning and making schools work....

American Diploma Project - Four organizations – Achieve, The Education Trust, the National Alliance of Business and the Fordham Foundation – have joined forces to strengthen ongoing standards-based reform efforts at the state level. The American Diploma Project aims to develop and solidify demand for standards-based high school assessment data in admissions and hiring processes; assist states in revising and/or strengthening their current standards-based systems; and develop national high school graduation benchmarks in English language arts and mathematics that all states may use to calibrate the quality and rigor of their standards and assessments. This site provides more information about the project goals, activities and partners....