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"One of the most important challenges facing our nation is the ability of public schools to prepare students, particularly traditionally underserved students, to graduate from high school and succeed in college and careers in the 21st-century global economy. Nobody has demonstrated a solution at scale?with one exception: New Visions for Public Schools in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. Our flagship enterprise, the New Century High School Initiative (NCHSI)?through which we created 99 small effective schools to replace large, failing schools?resulted in externally validated gains in student achievement and graduation rates for students, the vast majority who entered high school severely underprepared. Moreover, NCHSI launched NYC?s broader successful small schools creation effort to address low performing schools, impacting the system of 1.1 million students. We now seek to start and manage additional new schools as part of the city?s effort to turn around low-performing schools and broadly disseminate our model.

Our approach:
1)Apply lessons learned from NCHSI to a charter school and charter management organization model, creating 10,800 new high school seats in New York City, with a focus on the common core standards, new types of assessments, inquiry and imaginative learning through a partnership with the Lincoln Center Institute.

2)As part of the New Visions charter model, further refine our approach to ?inquiry? to develop educator capacity to use data and student work to identify learning needs; design, implement and test instructional and systemic changes; and continually improve their methods based on a detailed understanding of the needs of students.

3)Disseminate the model and components across NYC, states and district networks through NYCDOE, Lincoln Center Institute, the Annenberg Institute and the Public Education Network."

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